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1 Urdu couplets and shers with haivaan

haivaan(m): beast

Description of haivaan: The term haivaan in Urdu means "animal" or "beast," referring to any living creature in the animal kingdom. It derives from Arabic and is commonly used in South Asian languages to describe both domesticated and wild animals. Unlike the English word "animal," haivaan carries a slightly more emphatic or derogatory connotation when applied metaphorically to people. Differs from "janwar," another Urdu word for animal, as haivaan emphasizes brutish or savage

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aadmi kya woh na samjhe jo sukhan ki qadr ko

nutq ne haivaan se

musht-e-khaak ko insaan kiya

can one truly be human

who does not value speech?

it is eloquence that

turned a lump of dust into a human

Haidar Ali Aatish (6)

samjhe (10)

to understand

sukhan (m) (8)

speech, spoken words

qadr (m) (4)

value, worth

nutq (m) (1)

articulation, power of speaking

haivaan (m) (1)

beast

musht (m) (2)

fistful

khaak (m) (4)

dust, ashes, worthless

insaan (m) (12)

human

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