What does korân mean?

Definitions for korân
kəˈrɑn, -ˈræn, kɔ-, koʊ-korân

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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)

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  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 korân »

  1. krona

  2. króna

  3. Akron

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of korân in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of korân in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of korân in a Sentence

  1. Tynan Power:

    There are Muslims who believe that the Koran forbids homosexuality, just as there are Christians who believe the Bible does, there are also Muslims who believe that honoring their God-given capacity to love is a form of worship. Ultimately, no one perspective can define a religion for all other people of that faith.

  2. Mark Holden:

    She told me I was a racist and she would not tolerate that kind of racism in the class, i told her Islam was not a race and I was only talking about what the two Muslims men as individuals said – I was not making broad claims about Islam or my interpretation of the Koran.

  3. Al Fadi:

    It's a noble.... gesture on his part to try to relook again at the interpretation of the Koran. But the problem is, you have fourteen hundred years... of history that backs up the interpretation we're seeing basically by groups like ISIS, Boko Haram, Al Shaba and Al Qaeda.

  4. 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?

  5. Brian Wilson:

    There's kids who need homes. There's people who want to give it to them and they're turning them away, if they were to turn around and deny our right to foster a child because we had a Bible or Koran, they'd be screaming from the heavens, 'How dare somebody infringe upon somebody's First Amendment rights?'.

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