2c · The Deccan’s own voice · verse 34 · Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah · r. 1580 – 1612 · 16 words, 14 with a dictionary page

One moment of your face

When I look upon the light of your face, that one moment is for me the work of a hundred years.

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What is the archive's and what is not. The Urdu text is quoted verbatim from Kulliyāt-e Sulṭān Muḥammad Qulī Quṭb Shāh, ed. Sayyid Muḥīuddīn Qādrī Zor (1940), p. 239. 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 Sulṭān Muḥammad Qulī Quṭb Shāh, ed. Sayyid Muḥīuddīn Qādrī Zor, 1940, Part 1, Nazmeñ, Bārah Piyāriyāñ — Piyārī, poem 159, p. 239 (scan leaf 268) — https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.544682 · fetched · public domain (DLI); 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.