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badnaseeb: unfortunate

Description of badnaseeb: Badnaseeb is an Urdu word meaning an unfortunate or unlucky person, often one plagued by persistent misfortune or ill fate. Unlike badkismat, which emphasizes sheer bad luck, badnaseeb conveys a deeper sense of being inherently star-crossed or doomed by destiny. Differs from naseeb , as it specifically denotes the absence of good fortune leading to chronic hardship. In Urdu poetry, it evokes tragic figures enduring endless sorrow, like lovers parted

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kitna hai badnaseeb 'zafar’dafn ke liye

do gaz zameen bhi na mili

kuu-e-yaar mein

how wretched is your fate, ‘zafar’

that for your burial

you couldn’t get two yards

in the lane of the beloved

Bahadur Shah Zafar (9)

badnaseeb (1)

unfortunate

dafn (m) (2)

burial

gaz (m) (1)

yard

zameen (m) (13)

ground, earth, land

kuu (m) (1)

lane

yaar (m) (19)

friend, beloved

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