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

It likened his latest production, De Captivitate Babylonica, to Alcoran.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Baird, Henry Martyn

Every Chapter in the Alcoran begins so, and all their Authors have followed this way ever price.

From The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan by Tufail, Ibn

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 Essays and Tales by Morley, Henry

Here are also several Effendies, or masters of learning, who daily expound out of the Alcoran, sitting in high chairs, and some of the learned Pilgrims, whilst they are here, do undertake the same.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The inquisition likewise takes cognizance of such as are accused of being magicians, and of such who read the bible in the common language, the Talmud of the Jews, or the Alcoran of the Mahometans.

From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John