رونق

رونق

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ر و ق‎ (r-w-q).

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

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Persian

Etymology

From Arabic رَوْنَق‎ (rawnaq).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /ɾawnaq/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /ɾawnaq/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /ɾownæɢ/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /ɾavnaq/

Noun

رُونَق • (rownaq)

1. beauty, glamour, splendor
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, Reynold A. Nicholson, transl., مثنوی معنوی‎ [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], 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

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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۔‎‎

   rauṇaq lagī rahindī ae.

   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)	—
locative	رَوݨَقے‎ (rauṇaqe)	رَوݨَقِیں‎ (rauṇaqīṉ)
instrumental	رَوݨَقے‎ (rauṇaqe)	رَوݨَقیں‎ (rauṇaqeṉ)

References

• “رونق‎”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2023
• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “رَونَق‎”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

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Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَوْنَق‎ (rawnaq).

Noun

رونق • (raunaq) m (Hindi spelling रौनक़)

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