رونق

• IPA^(key): /raw.naq/

رَوْنَق • (rawnaq) m

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

• → Classical Persian: رَوْنَق (rawnaq)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: रौनक़ (raunaq)

    Urdu: رَونَق (raunaq)

• → Northern Kurdish: rewnaq

Borrowed from Arabic رَوْنَق (rawnaq).

رونق • (rawnaq / rownaġ) (Tajik spelling равнақ)

1. boom, heyday, flourishing

   رونق بازار ― rawnaq-i / rownaġ-e bāzār / bâzâr ― market boom

   رونق و رکود ― rawnaq / rownaġ wa rukūd / va rokud ― boom and bust

2. (poetic)
   1. beauty, glamour, splendor
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume IV, verse 1734:

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

     rawnaq-i dunyā bar-ārad z-ō kasād, z-ānki hast az ālam-i kawn u fasād

     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.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

   • 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.

     tu az mulk-i irāqī wāžgūn kun ādat-i pēšīn, agar xwāhī ki husn-i rawnaq-i hindūstān bīnī.

     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.

   1. radiance, glow, luster

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: रौनक़ (raunaq)

  Urdu: رَونَق (raunaq)

• 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

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

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

رَوݨَق • (rauṇaq) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਰੌਣਕ)

1. liveliness, bustlingness

   رَوݨَق لَگی رَہِنْدی اے۔ ― It's always lively here

2=rauṇaq

• “رونق”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025
• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “رَونَق”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: عزیز پبلشرز [ʻazīz pabliśarz]

Borrowed from Classical Persian رَوْنَق (rawnaq), from Arabic رَوْنَق (rawnaq).

رونق • (raunaq) m (Hindi spelling रौनक़)

1. splendour, brilliance, glow, lustre

   Synonym: شان (śān)

   اس شہر میں رونق ہی نہیں ہے ― This city ain't vibing

2. life, charm (in social gatherings)

   Synonym: جان (jān)

   وہ ہر محفل کی رونق ہے ― They're the life of every party