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

baras: years, year

1 / 2: baras

ik pal ka qurb ek baras ka phir intezaar

aayi hai january

to december chala gaya

a moment of closeness

and then a year of waiting again

january has come

but december has gone

Rukhsaar Nazimbabadi (1)

pal (7)

moment, nurture

waiting

qurb (2)

closeness, vicinity

years, year

Theme: Miscellany (44)

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2 / 2: baras

tum salaamat raho hazaar baras

har baras ke hon

din pachaas hazaar

may you stay well

for a thousand years

may each of those years

have fifty thousand days

Mirza Ghalib (63)

well

thousand

years, year

Theme: Miscellany (44)

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