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  2. Maqta' - Wikipedia

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    He can "talk to himself", "to somebody else", "refer to something" etc. For example Firaq Gorakhpuri, whose takhallus is the word for the common theme in Urdu poetry of the state of pining for the beloved, plays on his pen name and the word firaq: Urdu: تو یہ نہ سمجھنا کے فِراق تیری فِراق میں ہیں

  3. Almaany - Wikipedia

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    Almaany offers correspondent meanings for Arabic terms with semantically similar words and is widely used in Arabic language research. [7] Researchers such as Touahri and Mazroui have used Almaany to "explain difficult meaning lemmas " in their published results.

  4. 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) is the first bayt, or couplet, of a ghazal. [1] [2] In this sense, it is the opposite of the maqta'.

  5. Sukha - Wikipedia

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    Sukha (Pali and Sanskrit: सुख) means happiness, pleasure, ease, joy or bliss.Among the early scriptures, 'sukha' is set up as a contrast to 'preya' (प्रेय) meaning a transient pleasure, whereas the pleasure of 'sukha' has an authentic state of happiness within a being that is lasting.

  6. Bilingual pun - Wikipedia

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    The result of a bilingual pun can be a joke that makes sense in more than one language (a joke that can be translated) or a joke which requires understanding of both languages (a joke specifically for those that are bilingual). A bilingual pun can be made with a word from another language that has the same meaning, or an opposite meaning.

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

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    from Hindi पश्मीना, Urdu پشمينه, ultimately from Persian پشمينه. Punch from Hindi and Urdu panch پانچ, meaning "five". The drink was originally made with five ingredients: alcohol, sugar, lemon, water, and tea or spices. [15] [16] The original drink was named paantsch. Pundit

  8. Duḥkha - Wikipedia

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    The literal meaning of duḥkha, as used in a general sense is "suffering" or "painful." [ note 4 ] Its exact translation depends on the context. [ note 5 ] Contemporary translators of Buddhist texts use a variety of English words to convey the aspects of dukh .

  9. The Gay Science - Wikipedia

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    The original English translation as Joyful Wisdom is more comprehensible to the modern reader given the contrasting modern English meanings of "gay" and "science". The German fröhlich can be translated "happy" or "joyful", cognate to the original meanings of "gay" in English and other languages.