Alcoran

See also: alcoran and Alcorán

English

Proper noun

Alcoran

1. Obsolete form of Qur'an.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.5:

     Thus it is not without wonder, how those learned Arabicks so tamely delivered up their belief unto the absurdities of the Alcoran.

   • 1817 December 30, Walter Scott, Rob Roy:

     ‘A poor forlorn and ignorant stranger, unacquainted with the very Alcoran of the savage tribe whom you are come to reside among—Never to have heard of Markham, the most celebrated author on farriery!’

Derived terms

• Alcoranic
• Alcoranist

Anagrams

• Alarcon, Carolan, acronal, loan car