See also: قرأن and قزان

Arabic

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Noun

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قُرْآن (qurʔānm

  1. verbal noun of قَرَأَ (qaraʔa) (form I); reading, reciting
    Synonym: قِرَاءَة (qirāʔa)
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 75:17-18:
      لا تُحَرِّكْ بِهِ لِسَانَكَ لِتَعْجَلَ بِهِ / إنَّ عَلَيْنَا جَمْعَهُ وَقُرْآنَهُ / فَإِذَا قَرَأْنَاهُ فَٱتَّبِعْ قُرْآنَهُ / ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا بَيَانَهُ
      Do not move your tongue quickly to hasten to read it. / Its collection and its recitation are on Us, / So when We recite it, follow its recitation. / And its eludication is also on Us.
  2. (uncountable) a piece for reading (for example, a book, a collection or set of passages or readings, and so on)

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Hijazi Arabic

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Root
ق ر ء
3 terms

Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Arabic قُرْآن (qurʔān).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɡur.ʔaːn/, [ɡʊr.ʔaːn] (archaic pronunciation)
    • IPA(key): [qʊr.ʔaːn] (common pronunciation)

Noun

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قرآن (gurʔānm (plural مَصَاحِف (maṣāḥif))

  1. Qur'an

Usage notes

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The plural is suppletive, from the plural of مصحف.

Moroccan Arabic

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Arabic قُرْآن (qurʔān).

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Noun

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قرآن (qurʔānm (plural قرآنات (qurʔānāt) or قرائن (qrāʔin))

  1. (in the definite) the Qur'an
  2. a copy of the Qur'an
    Synonym: مصحف (muṣḥaf)

Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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From Arabic اَلْقُرْآن (al-qurʔān).

Proper noun

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قرآن (kur'an)

  1. Qur'an

Persian

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Dari قرآن
Iranian Persian
Tajik Қуръон

Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic اَلْقُرْآن (al-qurʔān).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? qur'ān
Dari reading? qur'ān
Iranian reading? ğor'ân
Tajik reading? qurʾon

Proper noun

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قُرْآن (qor'ân)

  1. Qur'an

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Urdu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian قرآن (qur'ān), from Arabic اَلْقُرْآن (al-qurʔān). First attested in c. 1582 as Middle Hindi कुरांन (kurāṃna /⁠kurā̃n⁠/) / قرآن (qrān /⁠qurān⁠/).

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Noun

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قُرْآن (qur-ānm (Hindi spelling क़ुरआन or क़ुरान)

  1. (Islam) Qur'an

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Further reading

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  • قرآن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “قرآن”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 790
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “قرآن”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 463
  • قرآن”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.