2a · Reading Urdu · verse 27 · Mir Taqi Mir · 1723–1810 · 14 words, 14 with a dictionary page

The morning of old age

The morning of old age is turning to evening, Mir; you never woke up — the day here was very short.

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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 (rahā), 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.