paimaana(m): cup, measure

Description of paimaana: Paimaana is a masculine Urdu noun meaning a measuring instrument like a scale or yardstick, a vessel for gauging dry or wet substances, or a goblet especially for wine. Unlike modern standardized tools such as rulers, it historically encompassed everyday items like the foot-scale children carried in school bags, now called futta. Differs from mere cups by also denoting a standard, criterion, or Sufi concept of divine perception. In poetry,