2c · The Deccan’s own voice · verse 55 · Ibrahim Adil Shah II · r. 1580 – 1627 · 9 words, 9 with a dictionary page

I search for my beloved

My mind is searching the lover in the eyes but I fail to find him out because has hidden himself behind the (thin) curtain of the eyelashes.

What is the archive's and what is not. The Urdu text is quoted verbatim from Kitāb-i Nauras, ed. Nazir Ahmad (1956), p. 113. 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. Kitāb-i Nauras, ed. Nazir Ahmad, Bharatiya Kala Kendra, 1956, song 32, p. 113 (scan leaf 130)https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.53813 · fetched · edition in copyright — cite and link only, no facsimile
  2. Translation: Kitāb-i Nauras, ed. Nazir Ahmad, 1956, p. 139https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.53813 · fetched
  3. 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.