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A Nazar battu (Hindustani: नज़र बट्टू or نظر بٹو) is an icon, charm bracelet, tattoo or other object or pattern used in North India and Pakistan to ward-off the evil eye (or nazar). [1] In Persian and Afghan folklore, it is called a cheshm nazar (Persian: چشم نظر) or nazar qurbāni (Persian: نظرقربانی). [2]
Stradbroke (/ ˈ s t r æ d b r ʊ k / STRAD-brook) [2] is an English village in the Mid Suffolk district of the county of Suffolk. The census of 2011 gave the parish a population of 1,408, with an estimate of 1,513 in 2018.
In India and Pakistan, the Hindi-Urdu slogan chashm-e-baddoor (چشم بدور, '[may the evil] eye keep away') is used to ward off the evil eye. [4] In the Indian subcontinent, the phrase nazar lag gai is used to indicate that one has been affected by the evil eye. [5] [6] [7] The nazar was added to Unicode as U+1F9FF 刺 NAZAR AMULET in 2018. [8]
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Chashm-e-Baddoor (Persian, Urdu: چشمِ بد دور, Hindi: चश्म-ए-बददूर) is a slogan extensively used in Iran, North India and Pakistan to ward-off the evil eye (which is called nazar in the region). It is a Persian language derivation which literally means "far be the evil eye". [1]
Kalidasa, in the phrase मदिरेक्षणे appearing in passage II.72 of his Abhigyanashakuntalam, has also used the word Ikshana to mean the eye, which phrase Sankara explains is – madira ('wine') as applied to the eye (ikshana), - eye as equivalent to 'beautiful', madirekhshane means the one whose eyes intoxicate like wine or is ...
By contrast, an orbital ring is bare skin ringing the eye. In some species, such as little ringed plover, the orbital ring may be quite conspicuous. [97] eyestripe Also, eye line / eyeline. A visible stripe on the feathers of a bird's head, often darker than the surrounding feathers, running through the eye region. [97] Compare supercilium.
Stradbroke is a village in Suffolk, England. Stradbroke may also refer to: Stradbroke railway station, former station in Suffolk, England; Stradbroke Island, a former sand island near Brisbane, Queensland, Australia North Stradbroke Island; South Stradbroke Island; Stradbroke Handicap, thoroughbred handicap horse race held at Brisbane