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Koranesque

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Reminiscent of the Koran.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 2003, EddieA95, Re: A Few Questions to the NDE Experiencers Here Group: alt.consciousness.near-death-exp If more NDEs were recorded from the Muslim world, we would see more Koranesque accounts.
  • 2006, Face, Re-learning history -- it wasn't Popov, it was Mustafa Group: uk.current-events.terrorism Because, according to Professor Sherif Mardin of Washington University, (one of the two Americans with a Koranesque surname), to the Popovs of Islam we owe even the artichokes.
  • 2011, Hanson, Re: Feynman on Orbital Motion Group: sci.physics and do behave not any different then do Thoraic, Biblical or Koranesque cultist about their prophet

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History

Etymology

From Koran + -esque.