قران

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Arabic

Root
ق ر ن (q r n)
9 terms

Etymology

Verbal noun of قَرَنَ (qarana).

Pronunciation

Noun

قِرَان (qirānm

  1. verbal noun of قَرَنَ (qarana) (form I)
  2. (astrology) conjunction
  3. coupling, conjunction, union
  4. matrimony, marriage

Declension

Descendants

  • Persian: قران (qerân)
  • Ottoman Turkish: قران (kırân)

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قِرَان (qirān).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? qirān
Dari reading? qirān
Iranian reading? ğerân
Tajik reading? qiron

Noun

قران (qerân)

  1. (astrology) conjunction
    • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 174:
      گر ندیدید مه و مهر قران کرده بهم
      چشم دارید در آن عارض و غبغب نگرید
      gar na-dīdēd mah u mihr qirān karda ba-ham
      čašm dārēd dar ān āriz u ğabğab nigarēd
      If you have not seen the sun and moon in conjunction with each other,
      Cast your sight on that face and look at the double chin!
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
  2. (historical) Qiran (Iranian unit of money from 1825 to 1932)

Derived terms

Further reading

Sindhi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قرآن (qur'ān), from Arabic اَلْقُرْآن (al-qurʔān).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

قُرانُ (qurānu? (Devanagari क़ुरानु, Khudawadi 𑊺𑋩𑋣𑋙𑋠𑋑𑋣)

  1. (Islam) the Qur'an

References

  • Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “قُرانُ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society