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

ghuTnon: knees

1 / 1: ghuTnon

girte hain shahsawar hi maidaan-e-jung mein

woh tifl kya girega jo

ghuTnon ke bal chale

only the skilled horsemen

fall in the battlefield

how can a weakling fall

that still crawls on its knees?

Mirza Azeem Baig Chughtai (1)

girte (2)

to fall down

shahsawar (1)

horse-rider

maidaan (2)

field, ground

jung (2)

war

tifl (1)

weakling, infant, child

ghuTnon (1)

knees

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