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mashaqqat(f): labour

Description of mashaqqat: Mashaqqat is an Urdu noun meaning hard work, toil, labor, trouble, or distress. Unlike effortless pursuits, it implies strenuous effort often accompanied by physical or emotional strain. Differs from mere riyaazat , as it encompasses everyday pains or punitive labor. In poetry, like Hasrat's sher, it evokes the grinding toil of honing poetic skill akin to a millstone's relentless churn.

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ai raat, mujhe maa ki tarah god mein le le

din bhar ki mashaqqat se

badan TuuT raha hai

o night, take me into your lap

like my mother

the toil and troubles of the day

have broken my body

Tanveer Sipra (1)

tarah (16)

type, like, similar to

god (m) (1)

lap

bhar (11)

fill

mashaqqat (f) (1)

labour

badan (m) (5)

body

TuuT (m) (4)

break

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