2a · Reading Urdu · verse 17 · Daagh Dehlvi · 1831–1905 · 15 words, 15 with a dictionary page

Bismillah, good idea

When I said, 'Look, I am dying,' she said, 'Bismillah — good idea.'

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What is the archive's and what is not. The Urdu text is quoted verbatim from Mahtāb-e Dāgh (1892), p. 210. Each word's meaning is cited to the dictionary page it was read at. The Roman transliteration is the archive's own and has not yet had a native reader's pass — tap any word to see exactly what is cited and what is not.

Source

  1. Mahtāb-e Dāgh, Maṭbaʿ ʿAzīz, Hyderabad (Deccan), 1892, Ghazaliyāt, radīf bāt hai, p. 210 (scan leaf 214) — https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.435713 · fetched · public domain; facsimile allowed
  2. Word senses: John T. Platts, A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English (London, 1884), via the Digital South Asia Library — page numbers on each word card.