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Aftab

आफ़ताब
also written: Aaftaab
Meaning

The sun; a common poetic word for the daystar, and for radiant glory.

See it in the verse

Aftab in Iqbal’s couplets

Qalb o nazar ki zindagi dasht mein subh ka samaan
Chashma-e-aftab se nuur ki naddiyan ravaan
The life of the heart and the eye is like daybreak in the desert; from the spring of the sun, rivers of light flow out.
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Related words
ARABIC

Shams

The sun; the daystar.

PERSIAN

Khurshid

The sun.

PERSIAN

Mehr

The sun (also, by another root, love and kindness).

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