2a · Reading Urdu · verse 23 · Nazeer Akbarabadi · 1735–1830 · 15 words, 15 with a dictionary page

In praise of bread

When bread comes into a man's belly, the bread cannot be contained in his body for joy.

The 1922 lithograph writes the nasal ں as a dotted ن (ہین for ہیں, مین for میں); the Roman follows the sound, the Urdu follows the page.

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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. 244. 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, Roṭiyoñ kī taʿrīf meñ (روٹیوں کی تعریف میں), p. 244 (scan leaf 254) — 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.