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2 Urdu couplets and shers with samajhna

samajhna: to understand

Description of samajhna: Samajhna is a Hindi-Urdu verb meaning to understand, comprehend, grasp, or apprehend something mentally. Unlike passive perception, it implies active mental processing of ideas, emotions, or information. Differs from samjhana, which means to explain or make someone else understand. In Urdu ghazals, it evokes nuanced emotional insight, as in phrases like "na samajhna" for willful misunderstanding.

1 / 2: samajhna

agar ruk jaaye meri dhaDkantho maut na samajhna

kayi baar aisa hua hai

federer ko yaad karte karte

if my heart stops a while

don’t presume I am dead

many a time it so happens

when i recollect federer!

Mirza Ghalib (63)
yaad (m) (35)

memory, remember

dhaDkan (m) (1)

heartbeat

maut (m) (4)

death

samajhna (2)

to understand

Theme: Heart, Mind, & Memory (66)

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2 / 2: samajhna

kinaare se kabhi

andaaza-e-toofan nahi hota

to understand love

you should first fall in love

from the shore, how can you

ever get a sense of the storm

mohabbat (f) (41)

love

to understand

naaseh (m) (3)

preacher, priest

khud (24)

myself

kinaare (m) (2)

shore

kabhi (26)

on occasion

andaaza (m) (2)

estimate, approximation

toofan (m) (9)

storm, cyclone

Theme: Miscellany (44)

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