قرآن

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See also: قرأن and قزان

Arabic

Alternative forms

Noun

قُرْآن • (qurʔān) m

  1. 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.
  2. (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 basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal قُرْآن
qurʔān 		الْقُرْآن
al-qurʔān 		قُرْآن
qurʔān
Nominative قُرْآنٌ
qurʔānun 		الْقُرْآنُ
al-qurʔānu 		قُرْآنُ
qurʔānu
Accusative قُرْآنًا
qurʔānan 		الْقُرْآنَ
al-qurʔāna 		قُرْآنَ
qurʔāna
Genitive قُرْآنٍ
qurʔānin 		الْقُرْآنِ
al-qurʔāni 		قُرْآنِ
qurʔāni

Derived terms

References

Hijazi Arabic

Root
ق ر ء
3 terms

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))

  1. 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))

  1. (in the definite) the Qur'an
  2. a copy of the Qur'an
    Synonym: مصحف (muṣḥaf)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic اَلْقُرْآن (al-qurʔān).

Proper noun

قرآن • (kur'an)

  1. Qur'an

Persian

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Dari قرآن
Iranian Persian
Tajik Қуръон

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اَلْقُرْآن (al-qurʔān).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? qur'ān
Dari reading? qur'ān
Iranian reading? ğor'ân
Tajik reading? qurʾon

Proper noun

قُرْآن • (qor'ân)

  1. Qur'an

Descendants

Urdu

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Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قرآن (qur'ān), from Arabic اَلْقُرْآن (al-qurʔān). First attested in c. 1582 as Middle Hindi कुरांन (kurāṃna /⁠kurā̃n⁠/) / قرآن (qrān /⁠qurān⁠/).

Pronunciation

Noun

قُرْآن • (qur-ān) m (Hindi spelling क़ुरआन or क़ुरान)

  1. (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.
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