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pakeeza: pure

Description of pakeeza: Pakeeza is an Urdu adjective meaning pure, chaste, or immaculate, often evoking moral or spiritual cleanliness. Unlike words denoting mere physical cleanliness like saaf, it carries deeper connotations of untainted virtue and innocence. Differs from pak by emphasizing refined elegance and sanctity in character. In Urdu poetry, it describes the beloved's soul as pakeeza, symbolizing ethereal purity and divine grace.

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hai dussehra mein bhi yuun gar farhat-o-zeenat 'nazir'

par diwali bhi ajab

pakeeza-tar tyohaar hai

in dussehra too

there is joy and beauty, nazir

but diwali is

uniquely and purely joyous

Nazeer Akbarabadi (9)

farhat (f) (1)

joy

zeenat (f) (1)

beauty

ajab (11)

strange, wonderful

pakeeza (1)

pure

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