Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Quick question

Here are two lines of poetry in Urdu, and I'm linking every single word in both lines to its entry in a standard Urdu-English dictionary:

  tum mire paas hote ho goyaa
  jab ko'ii duusraa nahiiN hotaa

My question:  Does that make the lines intelligible to someone who doesn't speak Urdu?

The lines are famous btw  :)  they are by Maumin KhaaN "Maumin" ... here is AKhtarii Baa'ii singing a different famous Ghazal of Maumin.

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