القرآن
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Arabic
Al-Fatiha, the Opening Sura.
Etymology
From قُرْآن (qurʔān).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
الْقُرْآن • (al-qurʔān) m
- the Qur’an
Declension
Declension of noun الْقُرْآن (al-qurʔān)
| Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | — | الْقُرْآن al-qurʔān |
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| Nominative | — | الْقُرْآنُ al-qurʔānu |
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| Accusative | — | الْقُرْآنَ al-qurʔāna |
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| Genitive | — | الْقُرْآنِ al-qurʔāni |
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Derived terms
- قُرْآنِيّ (qurʔāniyy)
Descendants
- → Dutch: Koran
- → English: Koran
- → French: Coran
- → Hebrew: קוראן (kur'án)
- → Classical Persian: قُرْآن (qur'ān) (see there for further descendants)
- → Turkish: Kur'an
See also
- تَوْرَاة (tawrāh, “the Torah”)
- زَبُور (zabūr, “the Psalms”)
- إِنْجِيل (ʔinjīl, “the Gospel”)
- الْكِتَاب الْمُقَدَّس (al-kitāb al-muqaddas, “the Bible”)
- الْعَهْد الْقَدِيم (al-ʕahd al-qadīm, “the Old Testament”)
- الْعَهْد الْجَدِيد (al-ʕahd al-jadīd, “the New Testament”)
References
- Wehr, Hans (1979) “قرء”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
Further reading
القرآن on the Arabic Wikipedia.Wikipedia ar- Quran on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
