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soorah

soorah is the dated form of sura.

Meaning of sura

Noun (1)

sura (plural suras or suwar)

  1. Any of the 114 chapters of the Quran.
    • Most of these essentially uninflected syllables (CV̄C) are names of the letters of the alphabet and introduce some of the suwar of the Qurʾanic text.1985, Kristina Nelson, The Art of Reciting the Qurʾan, Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press (2001), chapter 2: “Tajwīd”, page 25

Noun (2)

sura (uncountable)

  1. The sap of the palmyra or of the coconut palm, palm wine.

See all 3 meanings of sura

Forms of soorah

pluralsoorahs

Questions about soorah

What is soorah the dated form of?
Soorah is the dated form of sura.

Words near soorah in the dictionary

  1. soopolallies
  2. soops
  3. sooq
  4. sooqs
  5. soor
  6. soorah
  7. soorahs
  8. soord
  9. soords
  10. Sooretama
  11. Sooretama slaty antshrike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soorah (page history and authors); sura (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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