Buraq

American  

[boo-rahk] / bʊˈrɑk /

noun

Islam.

1. the legendary beast, a winged horse with the face of a woman and the tail of a peacock, on which Muhammad ascended to heaven.

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Example Sentences

Once there, he said, internal connections on Libya’s Buraq Air were in “new Boeing planes, right on time and cheap.”

From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2012

It was Leilat el Isra, anniversary of Mohamed's visit to the seven heavens on his human-faced steed el Buraq.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is often confounded with Buraq, the     Assyrian-looking gryphon on which he alleged that he flew to     Mecca.

From Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society by Crooke, William