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3 Urdu couplets and shers with tabaah

tabaah(m): wasted, ruined

Description of tabaah: Tabaah is an Urdu word meaning utter destruction, devastation, or complete ruin, often evoking a state of total annihilation emotionally or physically. Unlike mere damage, which implies partial harm, tabaah conveys irreversible obliteration leaving nothing intact. Differs from tabahi, its noun form denoting the event of catastrophe, as tabaah describes the resulting condition. In poetry, it captures love's wreckage, as in verses lamenting a heart rendered tabaah by unrequited passion.

1 / 3: tabaah

main bhi bahut ajeeb hoonitna ajeeb hoon ki bas

khud ko tabaah kar liya

aur malaal bhi nahin

i am quite strange...

so strange, what can i say?

i destroyed myself

and i feel no regret

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ajeeb (9)

strange, weird

khud (25)

myself

tabaah (m) (3)

wasted, ruined

malaal (m) (3)

sorrow, grief, regret

Theme: Hopes, Aspirations, & Dreams (39)

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2 / 3: tabaah

shukr hai zindagi

tabaah na kee

i didn’t have the priest

perform rituals and customs

happy that i didn’t

waste my life thus

sheikh (m) (1)

head, priest, learned man

shukr (m) (3)

gratitude, thanks

tabaah (m) (3)

wasted, ruined

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3 / 3: tabaah

wo log kaise sanwar jayen

jo tabaah nahin

from every night

a day dawns

how will they ever improve

who have not been destroyed

pahlu (m) (4)

side

raat (f) (14)

night

sanwar (m) (2)

correct, reform, rectify

tabaah (m) (3)

wasted, ruined

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