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2 Urdu ash'ar / shaayari (shers, couplets) containing the word:

girte: to fall down

1 / 2: girte

girte hain shahsawar hi maidaan-e-jung mein

woh tifl kya girega jo

ghuTnon ke bal chale

only the skilled horsemen

fall in the battlefield

how can a weakling fall

that still crawls on its knees?

Azeem Beg Chughtai (1)

to fall down

horse-rider

field, ground

jung (2)

war

tifl (1)

weakling, infant, child

knees

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2 / 2: girte

main apne jism ke andar na dafn ho jaaun

mujhe wajuud ke girte hue

makaan se nikaal

let me not be buried

within my own body

free me from this

crumbling house of existence

jism (6)

body

inside

dafn (2)

burial

existence

to fall down

house

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