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Aftab

आफ़ताब
said aaf-TAAB
also written: aaftab
Meaning

The sun; a radiant face likened to the sun.

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
PERSIAN

Khurshid

The sun.

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