# قرآن
## Arabic
### Alternative forms

* قُرْءَان (qurʔān), قُرْأٰن (qurʔān)

### Noun

قُرْآن • (qurʔān) m
* 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 بَيَانَهُDo 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.
* (uncountable) a piece for reading (for example, a book, a collection or set of passages or readings, and so on)

#### Derived terms

* الْقُرْآن (al-qurʔān)

### References

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

## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Arabic قُرْآن (qurʔān).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡur.ʔaːn/, [ɡʊr.ʔaːn] (archaic pronunciation)
** IPA: [qʊr.ʔaːn] (common pronunciation)

### Noun

قرآن • (gurʔān) m (plural مَصَاحِف (maṣāḥif))
* Qur'an

#### Usage notes

The plural is suppletive, from the plural of مصحف.

## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Arabic قُرْآن (qurʔān).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /qur.ʔaːn/

### Noun

قرآن • (qurʔān) m (plural قرآنات (qurʔānāt) or قرائن (qrāʔin))
* (in the definite) the Qur'an
* a copy of the Qur'an
    Synonym: مصحف (muṣḥaf)

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

From Arabic اَلْقُرْآن (al-qurʔān).

### Proper noun

قرآن • (kur'an)
* Qur'an

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اَلْقُرْآن (al-qurʔān).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [quɾ.ˈʔɑːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [qʊɾ.ʔɑ́ːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [qʊɾ.ʔɑ́ːn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [qʊr.rɑːn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [qur.rɔːn]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [qoɹ.ʔɒ́ːn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [quɾ.ʔɔ́n]
* Rhymes: -ɑːn

### Proper noun

قُرْآن • (qor'ân)
* Qur'an

#### Derived terms

* قرآنی (qor'âni)

#### Descendants

* → Bengali: কুরআন (kuran)
* → Gujarati: કુરાન (kurān)
* → Old Hindi: कुरांन (kurāṃna /⁠kurā̃n⁠/)
** Hindustani:
    Hindi: क़ुरान (qurān)
    Urdu: قُرْآن (qur-ān)
**   * → New Sanskrit: कुरान (kurāna), कुराण (kurāṇa)
* → Kannada: ಕುರಾನ್ (kurān)
* → Maithili: kurān, korān
    Devanagari script: कुरान, कॊरान
    Tirhuta script: 𑒏𑒳𑒩𑒰𑒢, 𑒏𑒽𑒩𑒰𑒢
* → Malayalam: ഖുർആന് (khuṟāṉ)
* → Marathi: कुराण (kurāṇ)
* → Marwari: kurāṇ
    Devanagari script: कुराण (kurāṇ)
    Mahajani script: 𑅕𑅒𑅭𑅢 (kurṇ /⁠kurāṇ⁠/)
* → Odia: କୁରାନ (kurāna)
* → Old Punjabi: ਕੁਰਾਣੁ (kurāṇu)
** Punjabi: qurān
    Gurmukhi script: ਕ਼ੁਰਾਨ
    Shahmukhi script: قُرآن
* → Sindhi: qurānu
    Arabic script: قُرانُ
    Devanagari script: क़ुरानु
    Khudabadi script: 𑊺𑋩𑋣𑋙𑋠𑋑𑋣
* → Tamil: குர்ஆன் (kur’āṉ)
* → Telugu: ఖోరాన్ (khōrān)

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قرآن (qur'ān), from Arabic اَلْقُرْآن (al-qurʔān). First attested in c. 1582 as Middle Hindi कुरांन (kurāṃna /⁠kurā̃n⁠/) / قرآن (qrān /⁠qurān⁠/).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /qʊɾ.ʔɑːn/, [qʊ.ɾɑːn]
* Hyphenation: قُرْ‧آن
* Rhymes: -ɑːn

### Noun

قُرآن • (qur'ān) m (Hindi spelling क़ुरआन or क़ुरान)
* (Islam) Qur'an

#### Descendants

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

### Further reading

* “قرآن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (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 ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.