2c · The Deccan’s own voice · verse 54 · wali-dakani · 10 words, 10 with a dictionary page

What poverty loses

Poverty loses all its spring; it loses a man his credit.

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What is the archive's and what is not. The Urdu text is quoted verbatim from Kulliyāt-e Walī, ed. Nūr-ul-Ḥasan Hāshmī (2008), p. 290. 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 Walī, ed. Nūr-ul-Ḥasan Hāshmī, 2008, Ghazaliyāt, radīf ی (running head ردیف 'ی'), poem 387, p. 290 (scan leaf 308) — https://archive.org/details/KulliyatEWali · fetched · edition in copyright — cite and link only, no facsimile
  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.