Noun
sura (plural suras)
- Any of the 114 chapters of the Qur'an.
- 1985, Kristina Nelson, The Art of Reciting the Qurʾan, Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press (2001), ISBN 9774245946, chapter 2: “Tajwīd”, page 25 ↗:
- Most of these essentially uninflected syllables (CV̄C) are names of the letters of the alphabet and introduce some of the suwar of the Qurʾanic text.
- 1985, Kristina Nelson, The Art of Reciting the Qurʾan, Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press (2001), ISBN 9774245946, chapter 2: “Tajwīd”, page 25 ↗:
sura (uncountable)
- The sap of the palmyra or of the coconut palm.
Sura
Proper noun
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