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Alcoran

Alcoran is the obsolete form of Qur'an.

Meaning of Qur'an

Proper noun

the Qur'an

  1. The Islamic holy book, considered by Muslims to be the word of God as revealed to Muhammad.
    • In the summer of 2002, responding to the 9/11 atrocity, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill made a selection of verses from the Qur'an a mandatory text for new students.2011 July 1, Malise Ruthven, “Reading the Qur'an by Ziauddin Sardar – review”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2023
    Synonyms:
    the Book

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Words formed from Alcoran

Questions about Alcoran

What is Alcoran the obsolete form of?
Alcoran is the obsolete form of Qur'an.

Words near Alcoran in the dictionary

  1. alcoometer
  2. alcoometers
  3. alcopop
  4. alcopops
  5. Alcor
  6. Alcoran
  7. Alcoranic
  8. Alcoranist
  9. Alcoranists
  10. Alcorcón
  11. Alcorn

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Alcoran (page history and authors); Qur'an (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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