Draft:Loanwords in the Quran

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The Classical Arabic used in the Quran includes loanwords from other Semitic languages and non-Semitic languages. The former words are difficult to distinguish due to common linguistic etymology.^[1] According to Rippin, more than 300 words in the Quran are borrowed from Hebrew, Syriac, Aramaic, Nabataean, Persian, Coptic, Latin, Greek and Utopian^{[clarification needed]}.^[2]