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suras

suras is the plural 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.

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Proper noun capitalized: Suras

Suras

  1. (plural) plural of Sura

Questions about suras

What is suras the plural of?
Suras is the plural of sura.
What part of speech is suras?
Suras is a proper noun.

Words near suras in the dictionary

  1. suranal
  2. surance
  3. surangular
  4. surangulars
  5. surans
  6. suras
  7. surasundari
  8. surasundaris
  9. surat
  10. Surat Thani
  11. Surath

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Adapted from Wiktionary: suras (page history and authors); Suras (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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