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• a variation of Alkoran.

Alcoran

American  

[al-kaw-rahn, -ran, -koh-] / ˌæl kɔˈrɑn, -ˈræn, -koʊ- /

noun

1. Alkoran.

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Alcoran British  

/ ˌælkɒˈrɑːn /

noun

1. another name for the Koran

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Other Word Forms

• Alcoranic
  adjective

Example Sentences

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Alcoran

Had he read the Golden Legend, the Turks' Alcoran, or Jews' Talmud, the Rabbins' Comments, what would he have thought?

From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton, Robert

Then placing a copy of the Alcoran upon his head, and resting one hand upon the head of his son Meeram, he solemnly swore to perform all that he had undertaken.

From Athelstane Ford by Upward, Allen

The Koran; commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 by Various

The speech of these people is Arabic, and they have got books of the Alcoran, and honour greatly their prophet Muhamad.

From A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by Barbosa, Duarte

They have erected and are now building mosques, and the boys are being circumcised, and there is a school where they are taught the Alcoran.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander