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2 Urdu couplets and shers with karobaar

karobaar(m): business

Description of karobaar: Karobaar is an Urdu word meaning business, trade, or commerce, often referring to professional dealings or transactions. Unlike casual employment, it implies entrepreneurial ventures involving risk and profit. Differs from pesha , as karobaar emphasizes market exchange over routine work. In Urdu poetry, it evokes life's transient dealings, as in Ghalib's verses likening human fate to fleeting trade.

1 / 2: karobaar

ab mujh se karobaar ki haalat na poochhiye

aaina bechtaa hoon main

andhon ke shahar mein

ask me not about

the fortunes of my business

i sell mirrors

in the city of the blind

Mahmood Ayaz (Mehmood Ayaz) (1)

karobaar (m) (2)

business

haalat (f) (4)

condition, situation

aaina (m) (7)

mirror

andhon (1)

blind

shahar (m) (2)

city

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2 / 2: karobaar

math poochho, doston,ki mera karobaar kya hai

muskuraahat ki choTi si dukaan hai

nafraton ke baazaar mein

ask me not, friends,

what i do for a living

i have a small shop of smiles

in the market of hatred

Anonymous

dukaan (m) (2)

shop

muskuraahat (f) (2)

smile

karobaar (m) (2)

business

nafraton (m) (2)

hatreds

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