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Arabic
Alternative forms
Noun
قُرْآن • (qurʔān) m
- 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.
- (uncountable) a piece for reading (for example, a book, a collection or set of passages or readings, and so on)
Declension
Declension of noun قُرْآن (qurʔān)
Singular
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basic singular triptote
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Indefinite
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Definite
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Construct
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Informal
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قُرْآن qurʔān
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الْقُرْآن al-qurʔān
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قُرْآن qurʔān
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Nominative
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قُرْآنٌ qurʔānun
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الْقُرْآنُ al-qurʔānu
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قُرْآنُ qurʔānu
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Accusative
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قُرْآنًا qurʔānan
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الْقُرْآنَ al-qurʔāna
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قُرْآنَ qurʔāna
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Genitive
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قُرْآنٍ qurʔānin
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الْقُرْآنِ al-qurʔāni
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قُرْآنِ qurʔāni
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Derived terms
References
Hijazi Arabic
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Arabic قُرْآن (qurʔān).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡur.ʔaːn/, (archaic pronunciation)
- IPA(key): (common pronunciation)
Noun
قرآن • (gurʔān) m (plural مَصَاحِف (maṣāḥif))
- Qur'an
Usage notes
The plural is suppletive, from the plural of مصحف.
Moroccan Arabic
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Arabic قُرْآن (qurʔān).
Pronunciation
Noun
قرآن • (qurʔān) m (plural قرآنات (qurʔānāt) or قرائن (qrāʔin))
- (in the definite) the Qur'an
- a copy of the Qur'an
- Synonym: مصحف (muṣḥaf)
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Arabic اَلْقُرْآن (al-qurʔān).
Proper noun
قرآن • (kur'an)
- Qur'an
Persian
Dari
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قرآن
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Iranian Persian
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Tajik
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Қуръон
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Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic اَلْقُرْآن (al-qurʔān).
Pronunciation
Readings
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Classical reading?
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qur'ān
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Dari reading?
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qur'ān
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Iranian reading?
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ğor'ân
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Tajik reading?
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qurʾon
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Proper noun
قُرْآن • (qor'ân)
- Qur'an
Descendants
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian قرآن (qur'ān), from Arabic اَلْقُرْآن (al-qurʔān). First attested as Old Hindi قرآن (qurān) in 1582 A.D.
Pronunciation
Noun
قُرْآن • (qur-ān) m (Hindi spelling क़ुरआन or क़ुरान)
- (Islam) Qur'an
Descendants
Further reading
- “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 , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.