فرقان

With some probability from Classical Syriac ܦܘܪܩܙܐ‎. The vocalization of the Syriac is uncertain.

فُرْقَان • (furqān) m

1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 25:1:

     ‏تَبَارَكَ الَّذِي نَزَّلَ الْفُرْقَانَ عَلَى عَبْدِهِ لِيَكُونَ لِلْعَالَمِينَ نَذِيرًا‎

     tabāraka l-laḏī nazzala l-furqāna ʿalā ʿabdihī liyakūna lilʿālamīna naḏīran

     Blessed is He who sent down the Furqān upon His Servant for him to be to the worlds a warner.

   1. verbal noun of فَرَقَ‎ (faraqa) (form I)
   2. evidence, proof
   3. redemption, salvation
   4. the Qur'an

• Freytag, Georg (1830–1837), “فرقان”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 340
• Geiger, Abraham (1833, 1902) Was hat Mohammed aus dem Judenthume aufgenommen? (in German), 2nd edition, Leipzig: M. W. Kaufmann, page 56
• Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 225–229
• Schwally, Friedrich (1898), “Lexikalische Studien”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎ (in German), volume 52, pages 134–135