https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SurahA surah (; Arabic: سُورَة, romanized: sūrah; pl. سُوَر, suwar) is an Arabic word meaning "chapter" in the Quran. There are 114 suwar in the Quran, each divided into verses (Arabic: آيات, romanized: āyāt, lit. 'signs'). The suwar are of unequal length; the shortest surah ("al-Kawthar") has only three verses, while the longest (al-Baqarah) contains 286 verses.