قرآن

• قرءان‎

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)

• الْقُرْآن‎ (al-qurʔān)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “قرآن”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 827

Learned borrowing from Arabic قُرْآن‎ (qurʔān).

• IPA^(key): /ɡur.ʔaːn/, [ɡʊr.ʔaːn] (archaic pronunciation)
  • IPA^(key): [qʊr.ʔaːn] (common pronunciation after the 20th century)

قرآن • (qurʾān, gurʾān) m (plural مَصَاحِف‎ (maṣāḥif))

1. Qur'an

The plural is suppletive, from the plural of مصحف‎.

Learned borrowing from Arabic قُرْآن‎ (qurʔān).

• IPA^(key): /qur.ʔaːn/

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)

From Arabic اَلْقُرْآن‎ (al-qurʔān).

قرآن • (kur'an)

1. Qur'an

Borrowed from Arabic اَلْقُرْآن‎ (al-qurʔān).

• Rhymes: -ân

قرآن • (qor-ân)

1. Qur'an

• → Bengali: কুরআন (kur-an)
• → Gujarati: કુરાન (kurān)
• → Old Hindi: कुरांन (kurā̃na)
  • Hindustani: qurān

    Hindi: क़ुरान

    Urdu: قُرْآن‎

    • → New Sanskrit: कुरान (kurāna), कुराण (kurāṇa)

• → Kannada: ಕುರಾನ್ (kurān)
• → Maithili: kurān, korān

  Devanagari script: कुरान, कॊरान

  Tirhuta script: 𑒏𑒳𑒩𑒰𑒢, 𑒏𑒽𑒩𑒰𑒢

• → Malayalam: ഖുർആൻ (khuṟāṉ)
• → Marathi: कुराण (kurāṇ)
• → Marwari:

  Devanagari script: कुराण (kurāṇ)

  Mahajani script: 𑅕𑅒𑅭𑅢 (kurṇ)

• → Oriya: କୁରାନ (kuranô)
• → Old Punjabi: ਕੁਰਾਣੁ (kurāṇu)
  • Punjabi: qurān

    Gurmukhi script: ਕ਼ੁਰਾਨ

    Shahmukhi script: قُرآن‎

• → Sindhi:

  Arabic script: قُرانُ‎

  Devanagari script: क़ुरानु

  Khudawadi script: 𑊺𑋩𑋣𑋙𑋠𑋑𑋣 (qurānu)

• → Tamil: குர்ஆன் (kur’āṉ)
• → Telugu: ఖోరాన్ (khōrān)

Borrowed from Classical Persian قرآن‎ (qur'ān), from Arabic اَلْقُرْآن‎ (al-qurʔān). First attested as Old Hindi कुरांन (kurā̃n).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /qʊɾ.(ʔ)ɑːn/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /xʊɾ.(ʔ)ɑːn/
• Hyphenation: قُرْ‧آن
• Rhymes: -ɑːn

قرآن • (qur'ān) m (Hindi spelling क़ुरान)

1. (Islam) Qur'an

• → New Sanskrit: कुरान (kurāna), कुराण (kurāṇa)

• “قرآن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (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 Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.