क़ुरान

See also: करना, कराना, करनी, करनीं, करने, कारन, किराना, and कुरांन

Hindi

Alternative forms

क़ुरआन (quraān), क़ुर्आन (qurān)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (qur'ān), from Arabic اَلْقُرْآن (al-qurʔān). First attested as Old Hindi कुरांन (kurā̃n).

Pronunciation

(Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /qʊ.ɾɑːn/, [qʊ.ɾä̃ːn], /kʊ.ɾɑːn/, [kʊ.ɾä̃ːn]
Hyphenation: क़ु‧रान
Rhymes: -ɑːn

Proper noun

क़ुरान • (qurān) m (Urdu spelling قُرْآن)

(Islam) Qur'an

Declension

Declension of *क़ुरान* (sg-only masc cons-stem)
	singular
direct	क़ुरान qurān
oblique	क़ुरान qurān
vocative	क़ुरान qurān

Derived terms

क़ुरान शरीफ़ (qurān śarīf)
क़ुरानी (qurānī)

Descendants

→ New Sanskrit: कुरानः (kurānaḥ), कुराण (kurāṇa)

Further reading

Caturvedi, Mahendra; Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970), “क़ुरान”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House, page 141
Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975), “कुरान”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. “Sea of Hindi words”] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 999
McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “कु़रान”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 207
Platts, John T. (1884), “قرآن”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 790