کن فیکون

Urdu

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Arabic كُنْ فَيَكُونُ (kun fayakūnu). First attested in c. 1503 as Middle Hindi کن فیکون (kn fykvn).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /kʊn fə.jə.kuːn/
• Hyphenation: کُنْ‧فَ‧یَ‧کُون
• Rhymes: -uːn

Phrase

کُن فَیَکُون • (kun fayakūn) (Hindi spelling कुन फ़यकून)

1. (Islam, Qur'an) "Be! And thus, it is." (God states in the Qur'an) – used to state God's power over its creation.
   • 2011, “Kun Faaya Kun”, in Irshad Kamil (lyrics), Rockstar (2011 film), performed by A. R. Rahman, Javed Ali, Mohit Chauhan, Nizami Brothers:

     سَچ تُو ہی ہَے، خُدایَا
     کُن فَیَکُون

     sac tū hī hai, xudāyā
     kun fayakūn

     You are The Truth, O God
     Be, and it is!

1. (figuratively) an immediate result.

Further reading

More information

• “kun-fayakuun”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “کن”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 497