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skybook

skybook noun: the Qur'an.

Noun

skybook (plural skybooks)

  1. (India, Internet, derogatory, offensive, slur) The Qur'an.
  2. (India, Internet, derogatory, offensive, slur, less often by extension) The Bible.

Forms of skybook

pluralskybooks
alternative formsky book

Origin of skybook

From sky + book. Also Calque of Urdu آسمانی کتاب (asmānī kitāb, “heavenly book”), a popular term used in Pakistan for the Quran. Referring to the belief that the Quran was first revealed by an angel to Muhammad, a prophet in Islam, so it is considered as a book from Heaven.

Questions about skybook

What does skybook mean?
Skybook means the Qur'an.
What part of speech is skybook?
Skybook is a noun.
What is the plural of skybook?
The plural of skybook is skybooks.

Words near skybook in the dictionary

  1. skyblue
  2. skyboard
  3. skyboarder
  4. skyboarding
  5. skyboards
  6. skybook
  7. skybooks
  8. skyborne
  9. skybound
  10. skybox
  11. skyboxes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skybook (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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