کن فیکون
Urdu
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from Arabic كُنْ فَيَكُونُ (kun fayakūnu). First attested in c. 1503 as Middle Hindi کن فیکون (kn fykvn).[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /kʊn fə.jə.kuːn/
- Hyphenation: کُنْ‧فَ‧یَ‧کُون
- Rhymes: -uːn
Phrase
editکُن فَیَکُون • (kun fayakūn) (Hindi spelling कुन फ़यकून)
- (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!
- sac tū hī hai, xudāyā
- (figuratively) an immediate result.
References
editFurther reading
editMore 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
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