2a · Reading Urdu · verse 25 · Nazeer Akbarabadi · 1735–1830 · 16 words, 16 with a dictionary page

Poverty

When poverty comes upon a man's condition, in how many ways does poverty torment him!

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What is the archive's and what is not. The Urdu text is quoted verbatim from Kulliyāt-e Naz̤īr Akbarābādī (1922), p. 347. 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. Kulliyāt-e Naz̤īr Akbarābādī, Maṭbaʿ-e Munshī Nawal Kishor, Lucknow, 1922, Dar bayān-e muflisī (در بیان مفلسی), p. 347 (scan leaf 357) — https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.450493 · fetched · public domain (d. 1830); 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.