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Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قرائت (ḳırāʾat, “a reading; a reading or reciting the Qur'an in a solemn or artistic manner, (pl. "قرآات") a special method of pronouncing each word of the Qur'an”),[1][2] from Arabic قِرَاءَة (qirāʔa, “reading”), verbal noun of قَرَأَ (qaraʔa, “to read, to recite”).[3]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɯ.ɾaːˈat/
- Hyphenation: kı‧ra‧at
Noun
kıraat (definite accusative kıraati, plural kıraatler)
- (dated) An act of reading or reciting.
- Synonym: okuma
- (dated, Islam) Reading or reciting the Qur'an according to tajwid and sajawand rules.
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References
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قرائت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1444
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قرائت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 953
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kıraat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
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