القرآن

Arabic

Al-Fatiha, the Opening Sura.

Etymology

From قُرْآن (qurʔān).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al.qur.ʔaːn/

Proper noun

الْقُرْآن • (al-qurʔān) m

1. the Qur’an

Declension

Declension of proper noun الْقُرْآن (al-qurʔān)

singular	basic singular triptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	—	الْقُرْآن al-qurʔān	—
nominative	—	الْقُرْآنُ al-qurʔānu	—
accusative	—	الْقُرْآنَ al-qurʔāna	—
genitive	—	الْقُرْآنِ al-qurʔāni	—

Derived terms

• قُرْآنِيُّونْ (qurʔāniyyūn)
• قُرْآنِيّ (qurʔāniyy)

Descendants

• → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܩܘܼܪܐܵܢ (qūrˀān)
• → Dutch: Koran
• → English: Koran
• → French: Coran
• → Hebrew: קוראן (kur'án)
• → Classical Persian: قُرْآن (qur'ān) (see there for further descendants)
• → Portuguese: Alcorão
• → 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