فرقان

Arabic

Root
ف ر ق (f-r-q)

Etymology

From Classical Syriac ܦܘܪܩܢܐ (purqānā) or Hebrew פֻּרְקָן (purqān).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aːn

Noun

فُرْقَان • (furqān) m

1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 25:1:

     تَبَارَكَ الَّذِي نَزَّلَ الْفُرْقَانَ عَلَى عَبْدِهِ لِيَكُونَ لِلْعَالَمِينَ نَذِيرًا

     tabāraka l-laḏī nazzala al-furqāna ʕalā ʕabdihī liyakūna lilʕālamīna naḏīran

     Blessed is He who sent down the Furqān upon His Servant for him to be to the worlds a warner.

   1. verbal noun of فَرَقَ (faraqa) (form I)
   2. evidence, proof
   3. redemption, salvation
   4. the Qur'an

Declension

Declension of noun فُرْقَان (furqān)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	فُرْقَان furqān	الْفُرْقَان al-furqān	فُرْقَان furqān
Nominative	فُرْقَانٌ furqānun	الْفُرْقَانُ al-furqānu	فُرْقَانُ furqānu
Accusative	فُرْقَانًا furqānan	الْفُرْقَانَ al-furqāna	فُرْقَانَ furqāna
Genitive	فُرْقَانٍ furqānin	الْفُرْقَانِ al-furqāni	فُرْقَانِ furqāni

Descendants

• → Old Armenian: փուրկան (pʻurkan, “the Qur'an”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1830–1837) “فرقان”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 340
• Geiger, Abraham (1833, 1902) Was hat Mohammed aus dem Judenthume aufgenommen? (in German), 2nd edition, Leipzig: M. W. Kaufmann, pages 55–56
• Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 225–229
• Schwally, Friedrich (1898) “Lexikalische Studien”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[2] (in German), volume 52, pages 134–135