"Koran-koran ini dari Jakarta."

Translation: These newspapers are from Jakarta.

[AbdullahAAK]

Do Indonesian Muslims find it degrading that their term for newspapers sounds so much like Quran?

[shayb90]

Lol, no, we mostly pronounce it as 'kurr-an' for Quran, very distinct fromthe pronouciation 'ko-ran' for newspaper

[dylazia]

not really, we often say it "al-Qur'an"

[CosmicRaph]

I wondered as well. Thx for asking

[A_Revaldy]

Qur'an = Kur'an
Koran = Koran
Its different LOL

[Archie135birgir]

Why not ''Koran-koran ini ADA dari Jakarta'' if they meant ARE from Jakarta?

[enigmajf]

"ada" means indicating an actual and current availability of existence of which something is located in a particular place not its origination. "Ada" has its own prepositional verb which is ("in") to mean to exist, to be in place "IN".... somewhere.
if you want to say where something is originated from, you can use prepositional adjective "berasal dari". but you cannot use "ada" and "dari" together

[MrOriginalName]

That is exactly why I am here!! Seriously. I spent so long understanding "ada" Just for them to be like "Lol. Get good kid."

[Twodu2]

Koran is from Dutch words "krant" it means newspaper

[MrOriginalName]

Apparently Ada doesn't matter anymore lol.