Qur'an

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /kəˈɹɑːn/
• US
• Rhymes: -ɑːn

Alternative forms

• Quran, Koran
• Alcoran,
• Alkoran, Coran
• Qoran, Qor'an
• Qur'ân, Qur'ān

Origin

Borrowed from , definite form of قُرْآن ("act of reciting"), verbal noun of قَرَأَ ("to recite; to read (aloud)"). (The obsolete alternative spellings with "al-", like the Alcoran, redundantly retained the Arabic definite article.) Compare .

Proper noun

1. The Islamic holy book, considered by Muslims to be the word of God as revealed to Muhammad.
• 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.5:Thus it is not without wonder, how those learned Arabicks so tamely delivered up their belief unto the absurdities of the Alcoran.
• 1923, "Gandhi spends his time", Time, 16 Dec 1923:He reads largely religious books, chiefly the Gita and Upanishads. He has read the Koran and he is now re-reading the Bible.
• 2011, Malise Ruthven, The Guardian, 1 Jul 2011:In the summer of 2002, responding to the 9/11 atrocity, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill made a selection of verses from the Qur'an a mandatory text for new students.

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Derived terms

• Ahle Quran, Quranism, Quranist, Quraniyoon, Quranite, Quranize, Quranologist, Quranophobia, Qur'anically

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