2a · Reading Urdu · verse 29 · Mir Taqi Mir · 1723–1810 · 12 words, 12 with a dictionary page

Moth-like

In the assembly of the world, moth-like, Mir too turned his evening into dawn and was gone.

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What is the archive's and what is not. The Urdu text is quoted verbatim from Mukhtār Ashʿār — Intikhāb-e Dīwān-e Mīr Taqī Mīr Akbarābādī, jild 1, ed. ʿAlī Ḥaidar Ṭabāṭabāʾī (1909), p. 8. 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. Mukhtār Ashʿār — Intikhāb-e Dīwān-e Mīr Taqī Mīr Akbarābādī, jild 1, ed. ʿAlī Ḥaidar Ṭabāṭabāʾī, Maṭbaʿ Anwār-ul-Islām, 1909, Jild 1 (ghazals, by radīf), radīf alif (kar gayā), p. 8 (scan leaf 10) — https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.409148 · 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.