Qur'an

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  Qur'an    Koran  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Qur'an /kəˈrɑːn/ (also Quran)
noun Arabic spelling of Koran.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Koran /kɔːˈrɑːn, kə-/ (also Quran or Qur'an /kʊ-/)
noun the Islamic sacred book, believed to be the word of God as dictated to Muhammad and written down in Arabic.
– derivatives
Koranic /-ˈranɪk, -ˈrɑːnɪk/ adjective.
– origin from Arab. qur'ān ‘recitation’, from qara'a ‘read, recite’.
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