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Although Quran is in Arabic, there are many words in Quran text, rooted other than Semitic languages, which are difficult to distinguish due to common linguistic etymology . According to Rippin, more than 300 words in the Quran are borrowed from Hebrew, Syriac, Aramaic, Nabataean, Persian, Coptic, Latin, and ancient Greek and Utopian.

From Greek

• Arabic: مجوس, romanized: Majus: From Majus (22.17)
• Arabic: قسطاس, romanized: Kystas: From Kerykes (26.182)

From Roman

• Arabic: قصر, romanized: Qasr: From castrum (22.45)
• Arabic: بلد, romanized: Balad: From Palatium (90)
• Arabic: صراط, romanized: Sirat: From strata (1.5)
• Arabic: عتیق, romanized: Atiq: From antiquus (22.33)
• Arabic: قنطار, romanized: Qentar: From centenarium (3.75)
• Arabic: أنجیل, romanized: Engil: From Evangelion (57.27)
• Arabic: دینار, romanized: Dinar: From Denarius (3.75)

From ancient Persian

• Arabic: فردوس, romanized: Ferdows: From Persian: پردیس, romanized: Paradis meaning Paradise (23.11)

From ancient Turkic

• Arabic: غلام, romanized: Gholam: From Uzbek: Qulam meaning lad (19.20)

References

1. Lexical Borrowing in the Qur’ān
2. Lexical Borrowing in the Qur’ān

See also

• Apostasy in Islam
• Bibliolatry
• Quran desecration
• Attempted imitations of the Quran
• The Syro-Aramaic Reading Of The Koran

• Quran-related controversies
• Quran