فرقان

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 ʿalā ʿabdihī liyakūna lilʿālamīna 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 (pʿurkan, “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 (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 (in German), volume 52, pages 134–135