قران

Arabic

Root
ق ر ن (q r n)
12 terms

Etymology

Verbal noun of قَرَنَ (qarana).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qi.raːn/
  • Rhymes: -aːn

Noun

قِرَان • (qirānm

  1. verbal noun of قَرَنَ (qarana) (form I)
  2. (astrology) conjunction
  3. coupling, conjunction, union
  4. matrimony, marriage

Declension

Declension of noun قِرَان (qirān)
singular basic singular triptote
indefinite definite construct
informal قِرَان
qirān
الْقِرَان
al-qirān
قِرَان
qirān
nominative قِرَانٌ
qirānun
الْقِرَانُ
al-qirānu
قِرَانُ
qirānu
accusative قِرَانًا
qirānan
الْقِرَانَ
al-qirāna
قِرَانَ
qirāna
genitive قِرَانٍ
qirānin
الْقِرَانِ
al-qirāni
قِرَانِ
qirāni

Descendants

  • Persian: قران (qerân)
  • Ottoman Turkish: قران (kırân)

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قِرَان (qirān).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? qirān
Dari reading? qirān
Iranian reading? ġerân
Tajik reading? qiron

Noun

قران • (qerân)

  1. (astrology) conjunction
    • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 174:
      گر ندیدید مه و مهر قران کرده بهم
      چشم دارید در آن عارض و غبغب نگرید
      gar na-dīdēd mah u mihr qirān karda ba-ham
      čašm dārēd dar ān āriz u ġabġab nigarēd
      If you have not seen the sun and moon in conjunction with each other,
      Cast your sight on that face and look at the double chin!
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
  2. (historical) Qiran (Iranian unit of money from 1825 to 1932)

Derived terms

Further reading

Sindhi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قرآن (qur'ān), from Arabic اَلْقُرْآن (al-qurʔān).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [qʊrɑnʊ]

Proper noun

قُرانُ • (qurānum (Devanagari क़ुरानु, Khudawadi 𑊺𑋩𑋣𑋙𑋠𑋑𑋣)

  1. (Islam) the Qur'an

References

  • Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “قُرانُ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society