What does KORAN mean?

Definitions for KORAN
kəˈrɑn, -ˈræn, kɔ-, koʊ-ko·ran

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Koran, Quran, al-Qur'an, Booknoun

    the sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina

Wiktionary

  1. korannoun

    (The Islamic holy book/bible)

ChatGPT

  1. koran

    The Koran, also spelled as Quran, is the holy book of Islam, considered by Muslims to be the word of God as revealed to Prophet Muhammad through the Angel Gabriel. It contains 114 chapters, or Surahs, written in Arabic, and it forms the spiritual, moral, legal, and social guide for Muslims worldwide. The themes of the Koran include guidance on belief, law, politics, ritual, spirituality, and life in general.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Korannoun

    the Scriptures of the Mohammedans, containing the professed revelations to Mohammed; -- called also Alcoran

  2. Etymology: [Ar. qorn; with the Ar. article, Alkoran, Alcoran; = Turk. Pers. qurn, from Ar. quran, qoran, book, reading, from qr, read. See Alcoran.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Koran

    kō′rän, n. the Mohammedan Scriptures: Alcoran.—adj. Koran′ic. [Ar. qurān, reading.]

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Korân

    the Bible of the Mohammedans, accepted among them as "the standard of all law and all practice; thing to be gone upon in speculation and life; it is read through in the mosques daily, and some of their doctors have read it 70,000 times, and hard reading it is"; it contains the teaching of Mahomet, collected by his disciples after his death, and arranged the longest chapters first and the shortest, which were the earliest, last; a confused book.

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Etymology and Origins

  1. Koran

    Properly Al Koran, Arabic for “the book,” “the reading,” or “the thing to be read.”

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. KORAN

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Koran is ranked #27144 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Koran surname appeared 892 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Koran.

    94.9% or 847 total occurrences were White.
    1.4% or 13 total occurrences were Asian.
    1.4% or 13 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1% or 9 total occurrences were of two or more races.

Anagrams for KORAN »

  1. krona

  2. króna

  3. Akron

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of KORAN in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of KORAN in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of KORAN in a Sentence

  1. Robert Jeffress:

    When Christians act violently they are acting in opposition to the teachings of their founder, Jesus Christ, they cannot cite a single verse in the New Testament that calls for violence against unbelievers. On the other hand, radical Islamists can point to a number of verses in the Koran calling for Muslims to ‘crucify the infidels.’.

  2. Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri:

    We want to make clear that all activities being carried out by ISIS or any other terroristic and extremistic organization either in the name of God or religion or establishing any kind of Islamic state by acts of violence ... are totally in violation of the Koran and Islam.

  3. Ben Carson:

    What we should be talking about is Islam and the tenets of Islam and where do they come from? They come from Sharia. They come the Koran. They come from, you know, the life works and examples of Mohammed. They come from the fatwas, which is the writings of scholars, you know, and if you go back and you look at -- what I would like for somebody to show me is an improved Islamic text that opposes Sharia. Let me see -- if you can show me that, I will begin to alter my thinking on this.

  4. Diman Bayeez:

    I was very poor. I have schizophrenia and was just diagnosed with blood cancer, and my only daughter wasn't treating me well. I was borrowing money from people for the treatment. That was in June 2014, and she described her situation to a cab driver named Mahmoud in her home city of Kirkuk. He was ISIS and said if I joined, they would treat me well and pay me, she says. I said I would join on one condition : That they make me a suicide bomber and put me out of my misery. Mahmoud was killed fighting in Hawija, and two ISIS members found her number in his phone. She – along with her now ex-husband – were recruited. K.S. says she did not receive any formal training as a combatant, and did not pledge allegiance to ISIS, but admits that she allowed two militants to stay at her home – she now suspects that one was a spy for the Kurdish security forces. But when she was scheduled to put on the suicide vest, she got cold feet. She fled with the idea of seeking asylum in Europe, but the Kurds picked her up before she could leave. I told them I did all these bad things I didn't do because I wanted to be executed. I still wanted to die, K.S. says, saying that she attempted to kill herself in jail, too, with a kitchen knife. Now Iam thankful to God. I know I have committed no crime. Kurdish authorities beg to differ. According to the deputy manager of the correctional center, Zhino Azad, K.S. was deeply entrenched in ISIS, coordinating for their agents and being a guard at their female prisons – possibly filled with captured Yazidi sex slaves. Even her daughter, a lawyer, is terrified of her, Zhino Azad tells FoxNews.com. She is … a little psychotic. That's the type of people ISIS takes advantage of. K.S. does n’t mind prison at all. It is like heaven in this jail, she says. Here, she is safe from ISIS, is fed and receives medical treatment. I get to read the Koran all day and sleep, K.S. says with a bright smile. And I interpret dreams for the other women. A.H., a 35-year-old mother with a small tribal tattoo on the tip of her nose, also spoke to FoxNews.com. She was issued a life sentence, which was reduced to 20 years, then 15, because she has young children -- six of them who are between 5 and 16 years old. They are being looked after by the second of her husband's four wives. He is in jail now too, she says. At first, A.H. maintains that she was working at a civilian hospital that was controlled by ISIS, but that she never treated wounded fighters, but it does n’t take long for her to let her guard down, especially after the prison official with us begins wandering in and out of the room. I went to ISIS Diman Bayeez and said I would do anything, clean hospitals, if they gave me a salary – $ 260 a month, she says. So I was setting up IVs and injections for the fighters. While she admits to having sworn allegiance to the Caliphate, A.H. also claims she was a spy for Iraqi intelligence, and, fearful that ISIS members would find out, she fled to Kurdistan in early 2016. We have problems, especially with the new prisoners, radicalizing others, so we try to keep the terrorists separate. - Diman Bayeez, manager of the Women and Childrens Prison of Erbil She says all evidence of her spying was taken from her at an Iraqi Army checkpoint. Of course I regret [ helping ISIS ]. But my family was hungry. My husband was old, she pleads. I feel betrayed. They took my phone, my proof I was helping them. They all say they aren't guilty.

  5. Baby Arife:

    You can't pray. You can't keep more than one Koran at home. You can't teach Islam to your children. You can't fast and you can't go to Hajj. When you're deprived of your whole identity, what's the point?

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