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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

The Saracen was not satisfied with this reason, nor with any other argument which Xavier used against the Alcoran.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 16 by Scott, Walter, Sir

From these fragments, soon after his death, was compiled the celebrated Alcoran.

From Four Early Pamphlets by Godwin, William

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

There is a famous Passage in the Alcoran, which looks as if Mahomet had been possessed of the Notion we are now speaking of.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

On one side of these was represented the head of the reigning caliph, and on the other appeared his name, with some passages from the Alcoran.

From History of the Moors of Spain by Florian, M.