surah

See also: şurah

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʊəɹə

Etymology 1

Noun

surah (plural surahs or suwar)

1. Alternative spelling of sura (“chapter of Quran”)

Etymology 2

Noun

surah (countable and uncountable, plural surahs)

1. soft twilled silk

Anagrams

• Ashur, Husar, shura, sahur, Århus, Rauhs, Shura, Shuar

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

surah m (plural surahs)

1. surah (material)

Further reading

• “surah”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Arabic سُورَة (sūra, “chapter of the Qur'an”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsurah]
• Hyphenation: su‧rah

Noun

surah (first-person possessive surahku, second-person possessive surahmu, third-person possessive surahnya)

1. (Islam) sura: any of the 114 chapters of the Qur'an.

   Synonym: surat

Further reading

• “surah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Noun

surah (Jawi spelling سورة, plural surah-surah, informal 1st possessive surahku, 2nd possessive surahmu, 3rd possessive surahnya)

1. (Islam) sura

Further reading

• “surah” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.