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  2. Shayar (poet) - Wikipedia

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    The literal meaning of shayar (shaa'ir) is poet. [5] There are more than 30 types of Urdu poetry, also known as shayari. Examples of shayari are ghazal, sher, nazm, marsiya, qita and many more. [6] Traditionally, that this form of poetry is often read to an audience in a special setting called mehfil.

  3. Double entendre - Wikipedia

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    Lodgings to Let, an 1814 engraving featuring a double entendre. He: "My sweet honey, I hope you are to be let with the Lodgins!" She: "No, sir, I am to be let alone".. A double entendre [note 1] (plural double entendres) is a figure of speech or a particular way of wording that is devised to have a double meaning, one of which is typically obvious, and the other often conveys a message that ...

  4. Urdu poetry - Wikipedia

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    The word "hamd" is derived from the Qur'an, its English translation is "Praise". Manqabat (منقبت): a Sufi devotional poem, in praise of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the son-in-law of Muhammad, or of any Sufi saint. Marsiya (مرثیہ): an elegy typically composed about the death of Hasan, Husayn, their relatives, and their companions.

  5. Poetry - Wikipedia

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    Assonance, where the use of similar vowel sounds within a word rather than similar sounds at the beginning or end of a word, was widely used in skaldic poetry but goes back to the Homeric epic. [77] Because verbs carry much of the pitch in the English language, assonance can loosely evoke the tonal elements of Chinese poetry and so is useful in ...

  6. Danda - Wikipedia

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    The daṇḍa marks the end of a sentence or line, comparable to a full stop (period) as commonly used in the Latin alphabet, and is used together with Western punctuation in Hindi and Nepali. The daṇḍa and double daṇḍa are the only punctuation used in Sanskrit texts. [ 2 ]

  7. Google Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Google Translate: Les Éditions Québec Amérique Inc. [f] Available worldwide define légende [g] German: Duden: Bibliographisches Institut GmbH: Available worldwide define Kraus [h] [i] Hindi: राजपाल हिन्दी शब्दकोश [Rajpal Hindi Shabdkosh] (Rajpal Hindi Dictionary) Rajpal & Sons: Available worldwide ...

  8. List of English words of Hindi or Urdu origin - Wikipedia

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    from Hindi and Urdu: An acknowledged leader in a field, from the Mughal rulers of India like Akbar and Shah Jahan, the builder of the Taj Mahal. Maharaja from Hindi and Sanskrit: A great king. Mantra from Hindi and Sanskrit: a word or phrase used in meditation. Masala from Urdu, to refer to flavoured spices of Indian origin.

  9. Matla' - Wikipedia

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    In Persian, Turkic and Urdu poetry, the matla ' (from Arabic مطلع maṭlaʿ; Persian: مطلع; Azerbaijani: mətlə; Turkish: matla; Uzbek: matla; Urdu: مطلع ...