kanun

kanun (plural kanuns)

1. Alternative spelling of qanun.

From Albanian kanun. Doublet of canon.

kanun (plural kanuns)

1. A set of traditional Albanian laws.

• kanû (Gheg)

From Ottoman Turkish قانون (“law”) (modern Turkish kanun), from Arabic قَانُون (qānūn), from Ancient Greek κανών (kanṓn).^[1] Replaced the original term doke.

• IPA^(key): [kaˈnun]

kanun m (plural kanune, definite kanuni, definite plural kanunet)

1. a set of codified traditional Albanian laws, specifically the Kanun of Lekë Dukagjini

   I dogjëm kanunet e vjetra. ― We burned the old kanuns.

2. (archaic) law

   Kanë vendosur me kanun. ― They decided by law.

• doke
• ligj
• normë

• → English: kanun

From Malay kanun, from Arabic قَانُون (qānūn), ultimately from Ancient Greek κανών (kanṓn). Doublet of kanon and qanun.

kanun (plural kanun-kanun)

1. alternative spelling of qanun

• “kanun”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

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

Christian sense influenced by Latin canon.

kanun (Jawi spelling قانون, plural kanun-kanun or kanun²)

1. principle, code, law

   Kanun Keseksaan: the Malaysian Penal Code

   Kanun Perubatan: Canon of Medicine

   1. (Islam) laws established by Muslim sovereigns, in particular the body of administrative, economic and criminal law, especially promulgated by Ottoman sultans, in contrast to sharia, the body of law elaborated by Muslim jurists
2. statute, precept, ordinance
3. canon
   1. (Christianity) religious law
   2. (Christianity, literature) the works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic Narratology
   3. (literature) group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
   4. (literature) works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.

• "kanun" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

kanun

1. alternative form of canoun (“clergy”)

From Ottoman Turkish قانون, from Arabic قَانُون (qānūn) (whence also Persian قانون), from Ancient Greek κανών (kanṓn). Cognate with English canon. Doublet of kanon.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɑː.nun]
• Hyphenation: ka‧nun

kanun (definite accusative kanunu, plural kanunlar)

1. (law) law, statute, code, written set of rules

   Synonym: yasa

2. (music) qanun

• kanuni

• hukuk

From Arabic قَانُون (qānūn), from Ancient Greek κανών (kanṓn). Cognate with English canon.

kanun (definite accusative kanuny, plural kanunlar)

1. law