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1 Urdu ash'ar / shaayari (shers, couplets) containing the word:

dahr: world, universe, era

1 / 1: dahr

jise ishrat-kada-e-dahr samajhta tha main

aakhir-e-kaar vo

ek khwaab-e-pareshaan nikla

that which i thought was

the pleasure house of the world

at the end, turned out to be

a troubled dream

Agha Mohammad Taqi Khan Taraqqi (1)

dahr (1)

world, universe, era

aakhir (4)

alas, afterall

kaar (2)

thing, work

khwaab (14)

dream

pareshaan (6)

distressed, troubled

nikla (12)

turned out, came out

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