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2 Urdu couplets and shers with kitabon

kitabon(m): books

Description of kitabon: Kitabon is the oblique plural form of the Urdu word "kitab," meaning "of books" or "books'" in English, commonly used in possessive or relational contexts in Hindi-Urdu sentences. Unlike singular "kitab" which denotes a single book, kitabon conveys multiplicity in oblique cases after postpositions like "ki" or "mein." Differs from "kutub," the classical Arabic plural rarely used in modern speech. In poetic usage, as in The Western Ghats' song lyrics,

1 / 2: kitabon

ab ke ham bichhDe to shaayad kabhi khwabon mein milen

jis tarah sukhe hue phool

kitabon mein milen

as we part ways now, perhaps

we may meet again in our dreams

just as we find dried flowers

within the pages of an old book

Ahmad Faraz (21)

bichhDe (m) (2)

disperse, part way

shaayad (8)

perhaps, maybe

kabhi (26)

on occasion

tarah (16)

type, like, similar to

sukhe (1)

dried

phool (m) (14)

flowers, flower

kitabon (m) (2)

books

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2 / 2: kitabon

dhoop mein niklo ghaTaon mein naha kar dekho

zindagi kya hai

kitabon ko haTa kar dekho

get out into the sun

take a bath in the clouds

figure out life

by first closing the book

Nida Fazli (12)

2013: Padma Shri

1998: Sahitya Akademi

zindagi (f) (41)

life

kitabon (m) (2)

books

ghaTaon (m) (1)

banks (of a river)

naha (m) (1)

bathe

haTa (1)

to remove

dhoop (f) (10)

heat from sun

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