2c · The Deccan’s own voice · verse 53 · Ibrahim Adil Shah II · r. 1580 – 1627 · 11 words, 11 with a dictionary page

So long I watched the road

I waited anxiously for my lover and went in search for him.

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What is the archive's and what is not. The Urdu text is quoted verbatim from Kitāb-i Nauras, ed. Nazir Ahmad (1956), p. 114. 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 35, p. 114 (scan leaf 131) — 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. 140 — https://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.