رونق

Arabic

Root
ر و ق (r w q)
9 terms

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raw.naq/

Noun

رَوْنَق • (rawnaq) m

1. beauty, glamour
2. splendour
3. radiance, glow

Descendants

• Northern Kurdish: rewnaq
• → Persian: رونق
• → Hindi: रौनक़ (raunaq)
• → Urdu: رونق

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَوْنَق (rawnaq).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ɾaw.ˈnaq]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [räw.nǽq]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [räw.nǽq]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [räw.nǽq]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [räw.nǽq]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɹow.nǽɢ̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ɾäw.nǽq]

Readings
Classical reading?	rawnaq
Dari reading?	rawnaq
Iranian reading?	rownağ
Tajik reading?	ravnaq

Noun

رُونَق • (rownaq)

1. beauty, glamour, splendor
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume IV, verse 1734:

     رونق دنیا برآرد زو کساد، زانک هست از عالم کون و فساد

     rownaq-e donyâ bar-ârad z-u kasâd, z-ân ke hast az 'âlam-e kown o fasâd

     The splendour of the present life soon produces unsaleableness [i.e. becomes of no account], inasmuch as it belongs to the world of generation and corruption.

   • c. 1585, عرفی شیرازی ('Orfi Shirazi), “Poem 56”, in قصیده‌ها:

     تو از ملک عراقی واژگون کن عادت پیشین، اگر خواهی که حسن رونق هندوستان بینی.

     to az molk-e 'erâqi vâžgun kon 'âdat-e pišin, agar xâhi ke hosn-e rownaq-e hendustân bini.

     You are from the Iraqi realm (Persian Iraq, not modern Iraq); turn your old ways upside-down, if you wish to see the beauty of the splendor of India.

2. boom, heyday, flourishing

   رونق بازار ― rownaq-e bâzâr ― market boom

   رونق و رکود ― rownaq va rokud ― boom and bust

3. radiance, glow, luster

Derived terms

• پررونق (por-rownaq)

 

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “رونق”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “رونق”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian رونق (raunaq), itself from Arabic رَوْنَق (rawnaq).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /ɾɔː.ɳəkə̆/

Noun

رَوݨَق • (rauṇaq) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਰੌਣਕ)

1. liveliness, bustlingness

   رَوݨَق لَگی رَہِنْدی اے۔

   It's always lively here

Declension

Declension of رونق
dir. sg.	رَوݨَق (rauṇaq)
dir. pl.	رَوݨَقاں (rauṇaqāṉ)
	singular	plural
direct	رَوݨَق (rauṇaq)	رَوݨَقاں (rauṇaqāṉ)
oblique	رَوݨَق (rauṇaq)	رَوݨَقاں (rauṇaqāṉ)
vocative	رَوݨَقے (rauṇaqe)	رَوݨَقو (rauṇaqo)
ablative	رَوݨَقوں (rauṇaqoṉ)	رَوݨَقاں (rauṇaqāṉ)
locative	رَوݨَقی (rauṇaqī)	رَوݨَقِیں (rauṇaqīṉ)
instrumental	رَوݨَقِیں (rauṇaqīṉ)	رَوݨَقے (rauṇaqe)

References

• “رونق”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024
• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “رَونَق”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَوْنَق (rawnaq).

Noun

رونق • (raunaq) m (Hindi spelling रौनक़)

1. beauty, glamour
2. splendour
3. radiance, glow