قانون

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κᾰνών (kănṓn). Treated as if from the root ق ن ن (q n n). Compare قَنَّنَ (qannana, “to legalise”).

• IPA^(key): /qaː.nuːn/

قَانُون • (qānūn) m (plural قَوَانِين (qawānīn))

1. (law) canon
2. (religion) canon

   قانون الكتاب المقدس ― The Canon of the Bible

3. axiom, norm, regulation, basic rule, established principle, canon

   الْقَانُون فِي الطِّبّ ― al-qānūn fī ṭ-ṭibb ― The Canon of Medicine

4. statute, precept, ordinance
5. law, code
6. tax
7. (music) qanun, kanoon, or ganoun (a musical instrument similar to a zither)

• (law): نَامُوس (nāmūs), شَرِيعَة (šarīʕa)

• قَانُونِيّ (qānūniyy)
• قَانُونِيَّة (qānūniyya)

• قَنَّنَ (qannana)
  • تَقْنِين (taqnīn)
  • مُقَنِّن (muqannin)
  • مُقَنَّن (muqannan)

• Maltese: qanun
• → Azerbaijani: qanun
• → Bashkir: ҡанун (qanun)
• → Malay: kanun
• → Middle Armenian: ղանոն (ġanon)
• → Ottoman Turkish: قانون (see there for further descendants)
• → Persian: قانون (qânun) (see there for further descendants)
• → Swahili: ganuni
• → Turkmen: kanun
• → Uyghur: قانۇن (qanun)
• → Uzbek: qonun

Borrowed from Classical Persian قَانُون (qānūn), from Arabic قَانُون (qānūn), from Ancient Greek κανών (kanṓn).

قَانُون (qānūn)

1. law

From Arabic قَانُون (qānūn).

• IPA^(key): /ɡaː.nuːn/, [qaː.nuːn], [ɡaː.nuːn]

قانون • (gānūn) m (plural قَوانين (gawānīn))

1. law, code
2. (music) qanun, kanoon, or ganoun (a musical instrument similar to a zither)

From Arabic قَانُون (qānūn), from Ancient Greek κανών (kanṓn).

قانون • (kanun) (accusative definite قانونی (kanunu), plural قوانین (kavanin) or قانونلر (kanunlar))

1. law (of man, as distinct from the law of God)
2. (music) qanun (a type of dulcimer)

• قانونجی (kanuncu, “lawmaker, legislator”)

• قانوناً (kanunen)

• Turkish: kanun
• → Albanian: kanun
  • → English: kanun
• → Armenian: քանոն (kʻanon)
  • → English: kanon
• → English: qanun

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قانون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 938
• Mallouf, Nassif (1867), “قانون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: Maisonneuve, page 958
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قانون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1425

Borrowed from Classical Persian قانون (qānūn), from Arabic قَانُون (qānūn). Ultimately from Ancient Greek κανών (kanṓn). Cognate with English canon.

قانُون (qānūn) m

1. law, rule, canon

Borrowed from Arabic قَانُون (qānūn).

قانون • (qānūn / ġânun) (plural قانون‌ها (qānūn-hā / ġânun-hâ), or قوانین (qawānīn / ġavânin), Tajik spelling қонун)

1. law
2. statute
3. rule

• قانونی (qânuni)
• قانون‌گذار (qânun-gozâr)
• قانون‌گذاری (qânun-gozâri)

• → Assamese: কানুন (kanun)
• → Bengali: কানুন (kanun)
• → Gujarati: કાનૂન (kānūn)
• → Hindi: क़ानून (qānūn)
• → Northern Kurdish: qanûn
• → Central Kurdish: قانوون (qanûn)
• → Punjabi: ਕਨੂੰਨ (kanū̃nă)
• → Santali: ᱠᱟᱹᱱᱩᱱ (kănun)
• → Urdu: قانُون (qānūn)

Borrowed from Arabic قَانُون (qānūn), from Ancient Greek κανών (kanṓn).

• IPA^(key): [qɑːnuːnʊ]

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قانون • (qānūnu) m (Devanagari क़ानूनु)

1. law, rule

• “قانون”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866–1938

Learned borrowing from Arabic قَانُون (qānūn).

قانون • (qanūn, ʔanūn) m (plural قوانين (qawanīn, ʔwanīn))

1. law, rule

Borrowed from Classical Persian قَانُون (qānūn), borrowed from Arabic قَانُون (qānūn), borrowed from Ancient Greek κᾰνών (kănṓn).^[1][2] First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi قانون (qanvn /⁠qānūn⁠/).^[3]

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /qɑː.nuːn/
• Rhymes: -uːn
• Hyphenation: قا‧نُون

قانُون • (qānūn) m (formal plural قَوَانِین (qavānīn), Hindi spelling क़ानून)

1. law
2. rule, statute

• قانُونی (qānūnī)
• غَیر قانُونی (ġair qānūnī)
• مُقَنِّنَہ (muqannina)
• قانُون گو (qānūn go)

• “قانون”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “قانون”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “قانون”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.