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mastaana(m): drunk, carefree

Description of mastaana: Mastaana is an Urdu adjective meaning intoxicated, carefree, or blissfully lost in ecstasy, often evoking a state of joyful abandon. Unlike somber intoxication implying loss of control, mastaana conveys a positive, exuberant high from love or wine. Differs from mere happiness by suggesting a deeper, almost divine rapture that transcends everyday joy. In Urdu poetry, like Ghalib's ghazals, it describes the lover's enchanted surrender to the beloved's beauty.

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mastaana saath mere roti phire hai bulbul

gul se jo dil lagaa hai

abtar hai haal us ka

the nightingale, drunk with passion,

circles me, weeping

its heart bound to the rose

its state has grown wretched

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gul (m) (21)

flower

mastaana (m) (1)

drunk, carefree

roti (1)

cry

phire (m) (2)

roam

bulbul (m) (8)

nightingale

abtar (m) (1)

broken, wretched

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