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7 Urdu couplets and shers with hans

hans: swans / smile, laugh

1 / 7: hans

naala-e-bulbul-e-shaidaato suna hans hans kar

ab jigar thaam ke baiTho

meri baari aayi

you laughed listening to

nightingale’s passionate lament

now hold your heart and listen

for my turn has come

Lala Madhav Ram Jauhar (7)
naala (m) (4)

cry, lament, wail

bulbul (m) (8)

nightingale

shaidaa (1)

passionate, infatuated

suna (9)

hear

hans (7)

swans / smile, laugh

jigar (m) (8)

heart

thaam (4)

hold, grasp

baari (f) (1)

turn

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2 / 7: hans

hans ke kehne lagaa

aur aap ko aata kya hai

when i mentioned

that i am falling in love with her

she smiled and asked

what else do you know to do

pyaar (m) (6)

love

par (m) (18)

wings, feathers / upon

hans (7)

swans / smile, laugh

aap (12)

respectful 'you'

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3 / 7: hans

koyi hans de to

mohabbat ka gumaan hota hai

maybe this too is

a shade of my deprivation

that if anyone smiles

it seems to me like love

rang (m) (11)

color, colors

perhaps, maybe

mehroomi (f) (2)

deprivation

hans (7)

swans / smile, laugh

mohabbat (f) (41)

love

gumaan (m) (5)

suspicion, doubt

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4 / 7: hans

hans rahee hain

aur kaajal bheegtaa hai saath saath

the sorrow of women is peculiar

and their happiness stranger still

ther are smiling,

yet their kohl gets wet

Parveen Shakir (16)
laDkiyon (f) (1)

women, girls

dukh (m) (7)

sorrow, grief

ajab (11)

strange, wonderful

ajeeb (8)

strange, weird

hans (7)

swans / smile, laugh

kaajal (m) (1)

kohl, eyeliner

get wet

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5 / 7: hans

ke tere marz ka ilaaj

mehfil hai doston ki

feeling my pulse

my doctor smiled and said

the cure for your illness

is a party with friends

Anonymous

ilaaj (m) (5)

cure, treatment

nabj (m) (1)

pulse

hans (7)

swans / smile, laugh

hakeem (m) (2)

healer, physician

marz (m) (1)

illness

mehfil (f) (17)

gathering, concert

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6 / 7: hans

jo taalluq ko nibhaate huye

mar jaate hain

we are swans sitting

by a dried-up pond

we die, while staying

loyal to the bond

sookhe (2)

dried up

taalab (m) (1)

pond

hans (7)

swans / smile, laugh

taalluq (m) (1)

relationship

nibhaate (m) (1)

fulfilling

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7 / 7: hans

kyuun tum aasaan samajhte the

mohabbat meri

looking at my condition

she asked, smiling,

why, did you think loving me

would be that easy?

aasaan (5)

easy

hans (7)

swans / smile, laugh

ask, inquire

haalat (f) (3)

condition, situation

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