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gile(m): grievances

Description of gile: Gile is an Urdu word meaning mud, clay, or soil, often referring to wet, sticky earth used in construction or pottery. Unlike dry soil, it is pliable and holds shape when molded. Differs from "mitti," which denotes general earth, as gile specifically implies moist, adhesive clay. In Urdu poetry, it symbolizes humility or the raw material of human form, as in verses likening the body to fashioned gile.

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kitne shikve gile hain pahle hi

raah mein faasle hain

pahle hi

there are already

so many complaints, grievances

there is aleady

so much estrangement (between us)

Farigh Bukhari (3)

shikve (m) (1)

complaints

gile (m) (1)

grievances

pahle (m) (7)

before

raah (m) (23)

street, path

faasle (m) (3)

distances, distance

Theme: Loneliness, Separation, & Grief (118)

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