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badla(m): change

Description of badla: Badla is an Urdu word meaning revenge or retribution, often implying a deliberate act of vengeance to settle a score. Unlike mere anger, which is fleeting emotion, badla involves calculated action over time. Differs from forgiveness, as it seeks justice through retaliation rather than reconciliation. In Urdu poetry, it evokes themes of honor restored, as in couplets lamenting lovers' betrayals demanding poetic badla.

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pata ab tak nahin badla hamaara

vahi ghar hai

vahi qissa hamaara

our address so far

has not changed

same house

same story ours

Ahmad Mushtaq (3)

pata (m) (5)

address, whereabouts

badla (m) (1)

change

qissa (m) (2)

story, account

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