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کن فیکون

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Urdu

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Arabic كُنْ فَيَكُونُ (kun fayakūnu). First attested in c. 1503 as Middle Hindi کن فیکون (kn fykvn).[1]

Pronunciation

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Phrase

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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.
  1. (figuratively) an immediate result.

References

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  1. ^ کن فیکون”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

Further reading

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  • 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