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Islamic text: Var
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coran
Word definitions for coran in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Koran \Ko"ran\ (k[=o]"ran or k[-o]*r[aum]n"; 277), n. [Ar. qor[=a]n; with the Ar. article, Alkoran, Alcoran; = Turk. Pers. qur[^a]n, from Ar. quran, qoran, book, reading, from q[^a]r[^a], read. See Alcoran .] The Scriptures of the Muslims, containing the ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Coran is an infrequently used English spelling of Qur'an (The Islamic Holy Book). It may also refer to: Coran River , a tributary of the Charente River in France Coran Capshaw , manager of the Dave Matthews Band Coracholan languages , an alternative name ...
Usage examples of coran.
Aelis lifted her voice, calling ahead to Riquier, the leader of the corans detailed to ride with her.
Balding and humourless, Riquier was much the best of the household corans, and she was, in any case, prepared to smile at almost anyone this morning.
Six men plummeted from branches overhead and all six of Urté's corans were pulled from their horses to tumble on the ground.
Even now, with wine and desire racing through her blood, she understood: just as she was no tavern girl, he in turn was no drunken coran in a furtive corner of some baron's midnight hall.
But the superstitious Arbonnais who were Mallin de Baude's household corans had insisted on eight going out so that there would be, if all went well, nine coming back when they were done.
Nor could it be denied-as Mallin had been quick to point out-that tonight's endeavour would help to hone the corans of Baude into a better fighting force.
Maffour, the most talkative of the household corans, had started to explain it once.
More than one of the corans and castle servants had private cause to thank the troubadour and the singers and the erotic atmosphere they'd induced for amorous interludes in kitchen and meadow and hall.
She liked her men to look like the warlike corans of the great days past.
In brief, the little troubadour, having downed a considerable quantity of unmixed Miraval red wine with the corans one night, finally elected to translate his fiercely impassioned verses into modestly passionate action.
He had to be able to say his corans had conceived the scheme without his knowledge or consent, and then hasten to a temple of Rian and make appropriate gestures of contrition.
It was all made particularly neat, Blaise had thought, by the fact that the leader of the corans of Baude that season just happened to be a hired mercenary from Gorhaut who didn't, of course, worship Rian at all and might be expected to perpetrate such a sacrilege.
The man could handle a bow well enough, and a sword and a horse, but surely, even here in Arbonne, they had to know that there was more to being a coran of the god than those skills.
They had rope with them, and each of the corans, even Luth, knew how to handle himself on a rock face.
Praying that the six corans in the skiff would have the sense to keep their heads down and faces hidden, he gestured for Hirnan to move closer.