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1 Urdu couplets and shers with garduun

garduun(m): heavens

Description of garduun: Garduun is an Urdu noun meaning the sky, heavens, or firmament, often evoking celestial vastness. Unlike earthly bounds, it symbolizes boundless cosmic realms in poetic imagery. Differs from mundane vehicles like carts or ox-carts, which share its secondary literal sense but lack its lofty connotation. In poetry, poets wander garduun seeking dawn, as in Ghalib's verse on moonlit exile.

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tilism-e-gumbad-e-garduun ko toD sakte hain

zujaaj ki yeh imaarat hai

sang-e-khaara nahin

the spell of the celestial dome

can surely be broken

it is a structure of glass,

not of unbreakable rock

Mohammad Iqbal (28)

tilism (m) (4)

spell, magic

gumbad (m) (2)

dome

garduun (m) (1)

heavens

toD (4)

to break

zujaaj (m) (1)

fragile, made of glass

imaarat (f) (2)

structure

sang (m) (3)

rock

khaara (1)

adamant, tough

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