Corão

Meaning

Qur'an (Islamic holy book)

Concepts

Koran

Qur'an

Qur’an

Quran

Synonyms

Alcorão

Translations

Koran

Corán

Corano

Coran

Κοράνιο

Kur'an

Coran

Koran

Alcoranus

Alcorà

القرآن

القران

Quran

القُرْآنُ

Pronounced as (IPA)

/koˈɾɐ̃w̃/

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic: قُرْآن

In summary

Borrowed from Arabic قُرْآن (qurʔān, “recitation”), from قِرَاءَة (qirāʔa, “reading, recitation”), from قَرَأَ (qaraʔa, “to declaim, to recite”), apparently after Classical Syriac ܩܪܝܢܐ (qeriānā, “reading; scripture”).