Koran, Qur'an, Quran: Any Faith-Based 'Book' by Any Name...

[TeaRowz]

[FONT=Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif]I was looking for the correct spelling of the Muslim 'holy book', totally disgusted at the idiot threatening to burn the Muslim 'holy book'. I ran across the following article...

http://lexicorient.com/e.o/koran.htm

Note the last sentence of this article that says:

"...any Muslim claiming that not every single word of the Koran was sacred, risked his position in society, his health or even life."

What's happening, especially now surrounding this 9th observance of 9/11 today, is one of the best examples of how this world's affairs are being screwed up by the same ridiculous, delusional thinking of religious believers, no matter what their beliefs.

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[hgc]

That book's name is correctly spelled in Arabic. When spelled with Roman characters, it's a phonetic transliteration that may be spelled in a variety of ways. There is no correct, so go with what you want.

 

[Robin]

That book's name is correctly spelled in Arabic. When spelled with Roman characters, it's a phonetic transliteration that may be spelled in a variety of ways. There is no correct, so go with what you want.

Except that by the conventions of tranlisteration, Q represents the pronunciation of the first consonant better than K.

 

[hgc]

Except that by the conventions of tranlisteration, Q represents the pronunciation of the first consonant better than K.

Speaking for myself, I pronounce Q not followed by u + another vowel the same as I pronounce K. The actual pronunciation, I am sadly missing.

 

[Wolfman]

The correct spelling in Chinese is 古兰经

(Those of you who don't have Chinese language installed on your computers probably won't be able to see that)

 

[Deneb]

قران

From the right: qâf (usually represented by a 'Q'), râ ('r'), alif (a long 'a', in this instance) and nun ('n').

The 'u' isn't present because it's represented by a diacritical (ُ ), which is generally omitted. It sounds like 'oo' (as in 'too', 'woo', etc). The 'Q' sound is a bit trickier to pronounce, so I won't try to explain, but it tends to mute the 'oo' sound, which is why you'll sometimes see the word romanized as 'Koran'.

 

[Robin]

Speaking for myself, I pronounce Q not followed by u + another vowel the same as I pronounce K. The actual pronunciation, I am sadly missing.

I have heard different pronunciations even from native Arabic speakers. I can't do the sound myself but it comes from further back in the throat.

I am not sure about the ' in the middle either. I have heard that sound rolled like a scottish R, or sometimes like Parisian R or sometimes like a rough sound far down in the throat but I have never heard an Arabic speaker pronounce it.

 

[TubbaBlubba]

The letter qāf is matched only by ǧīm among Arabic consonants in the number of pronunciations applied to it dialectically. As noted above, Modern Standard Arabic has the voiceless uvular plosive /q/ as its standard pronunciation of the letter, but dialectical pronunciations vary as follows:

In northern Egyptian Arabic, as well as Levantine Arabic, the letter is often pronounced as the hamza or glottal stop /ʔ/ but is preserved in several significant words.
In Sa'idi (the Arabic of the Sa'id, Southern or Upper Egypt), in some rural areas of Jordan and some forms of Yemeni Arabic, it is frequently pronounced as the voiced velar plosive /ɡ/.
In rural Palestinian Arabic it is often pronounced as the voiceless velar plosive /k/.
In the United Arab Emirates, it is often pronounced as the voiced postalveolar affricate /dʒ/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_uvular_plosive appears to be the default position. Basically you make a k but you pull your tounge back rather than push it up. It just sounds like I'm trying to puke when I do it though.