The U.S. state of Louisiana is divided into 64 parishes in the same way that 48 of the other states of the United States are divided into counties (Alaska is divided into boroughs and census areas).
Another term is al-kitÄb (The Book), though it is also used in the Arabic language for other scriptures, such as the Torah and the Gospels. The adjective of Quran has multiple transliterations including quranic, koranic, and qur'anic, or capitalised as Qur'anic, Koranic, and Quranic.
2. Prakrit-any of the vernacular Indic languages of north and central India (as distinguished from Sanskrit) recorded from the 3rd century BC to the 4th century AD. Indic, Indo-Aryan-a branch of the Indo-Iranian family of languages.