القرآن

القرآن

Arabic

Al-Fatiha, the Opening Sura.

Etymology

• From the root ق ر ء‎ (q-r-ʾ), from قِرَاءَة‎ (qirāʾa, “reading, recitation”), from قَرَأَ‎ (qaraʾa, “to declaim, to recite”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al.qur.ʔaːn/

Proper noun

الْقُرْآن • (al-qurʾān) m

1. the Qur’an

Declension

Declension of noun الْقُرْآن (al-qurʾān)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	—	الْقُرْآن al-qurʾān	—
Nominative	—	الْقُرْآنُ al-qurʾānu	—
Accusative	—	الْقُرْآنَ al-qurʾāna	—
Genitive	—	الْقُرْآنِ al-qurʾāni	—

Derived terms

• قُرْآنِيّ‎ (qurʾāniyy)

Descendants

• → Dutch: Koran
• → English: Qur'an
• → French: Coran
• → Hebrew: קוראן‎ (kur'án)
• → Classical Persian: قرآن‎ (qur'ān) (see there for further descendants)
• → Turkish: Kur'an

See also

• تَوْرَاة‎ (tawrāh, “the Torah”)
• زَبُور‎ (zabūr, “the Psalms”)
• إِنْجِيل‎ (ʾinjīl, “the Gospel”)
• الْكِتَاب الْمُقَدَّس‎ (al-kitāb al-muqaddas, “the Bible”)
  • الْعَهْد الْقَدِيم‎ (al-ʿahd al-qadīm, “the Old Testament”)
  • الْعَهْد الْجَدِيد‎ (al-ʿahd 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