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

ganwaayi: wasted

1 / 1: ganwaayi

tum bilkul ham jaise nikle ab tak kahaan chhupe thay, bhai

woh murakhta woh ghamaDpan

jis mein hum ne sadi ganwaayi

you turned out just like us, brother

where were you hiding all this while?

that stupidity, that stubbornness

in which we wasted decades

Fahmida Riaz (4)

murakhta (1)

stupidity

ghamaDpan (1)

stubborn foolishness

sadi (1)

ages

ganwaayi (1)

wasted

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