قرآن
ArabicEdit
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
قُرْآن • (qurʾān) m
- verbal noun of قَرَأَ (qaraʾa) (form I); reading, reciting
- Synonym: قِرَاءَة (qirāʾa)
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- 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.
- (uncountable) a piece for reading (for example, a book, a collection or set of passages or readings, and so on)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of noun قُرْآن (qurʾān)
Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
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Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
Informal | قُرْآن qurʾān |
الْقُرْآن al-qurʾān |
قُرْآن qurʾān |
Nominative | قُرْآنٌ qurʾānun |
الْقُرْآنُ al-qurʾānu |
قُرْآنُ qurʾānu |
Accusative | قُرْآنًا qurʾānan |
الْقُرْآنَ al-qurʾāna |
قُرْآنَ qurʾāna |
Genitive | قُرْآنٍ qurʾānin |
الْقُرْآنِ al-qurʾāni |
قُرْآنِ qurʾāni |
Derived termsEdit
- الْقُرْآن (al-qurʾān)
ReferencesEdit
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “قرآن”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[1], London: W.H. Allen, page 827
Hijazi ArabicEdit
EtymologyEdit
Learned borrowing from Arabic قُرْآن (qurʾān).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
قرآن • (qurʾān, gurʾān) m (plural مَصَاحِف (maṣāḥif))
Usage notesEdit
The plural is suppletive, from the plural of مصحف.
Moroccan ArabicEdit
EtymologyEdit
Learned borrowing from Arabic قُرْآن (qurʾān).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
قرآن • (qurʔān) m (plural قرآنات (qurʔānāt) or قرائن (qrāʔin))
Ottoman TurkishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Arabic اَلْقُرْآن (al-qurʾān).
Proper nounEdit
قرآن • (kur'an)
PersianEdit
Dari | قرآن |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | Қуръон (Qurʾon) |
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Arabic اَلْقُرْآن (al-qurʾān).
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /quɾʔɑːn/
- (Dari Persian) IPA(key): /qʊɾʔɑːn/
- (Iranian Persian) IPA(key): /ɢoɾʔɒːn/
- Rhymes: -ân
Proper nounEdit
قرآن • (qor'ân)
DescendantsEdit
- → Bengali: কুরআন (kur-an)
- → Gujarati: કુરાન (kurān)
- → Old Hindi: कुरांन (kurā̃na)
- → Kannada: ಕುರಾನ್ (kurān)
- → Maithili: kurān, korān
- → Malayalam: ഖുർആൻ (khuṟāṉ)
- → Marathi: कुराण (kurāṇ)
- → Marwari:
- → Oriya: କୁରାନ (kuranô)
- → Old Punjabi: ਕੁਰਾਣੁ (kurāṇu)
- → Sindhi:
- → Tamil: குர்ஆன் (kur’āṉ)
- → Telugu: ఖోరాన్ (khōrān)
UrduEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Classical Persian قرآن (qur'ān), from Arabic اَلْقُرْآن (al-qurʾān). First attested as Old Hindi कुरांन (kurā̃n).
PronunciationEdit
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /qʊɾ.(ʔ)ɑːn/
- Hyphenation: قُرْ‧آن
- Rhymes: -ɑːn
NounEdit
قرآن • (qur'ān) m (Hindi spelling क़ुरान)
DescendantsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “قرآن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (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 Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.