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Urdu
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Arabic كُنْ فَيَكُونُ (kun fayakūnu). First attested in c. 1503 as Middle Hindi کن فیکون (kn fykvn).[1]
Pronunciation
Phrase
کُن 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!
- (figuratively) an immediate result.
References
- ^ “کن فیکون”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
Further reading
- “kun-fayakuun”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “کن”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 497