Urdu · proper noun · Nation, Faith & Society

Amreeka

अमरीका

said am-REE-ka

also written: amrika, america, amreeka, united states

Meaning

America; in Iqbal's late verse a symbol of the new machine-and-money civilization of the West, dazzling in industry yet, in his reading, spiritually impoverished.

Related words

PERSIAN

Firang / Maghrib

The West, Europe — literally “the Franks.”

ARABIC

Maddiyat

Materialism; the doctrine that matter is all. Iqbal held it the root malady of modern Western civilization — vast in power over things, blind to spirit and the self.

URDU

Masheen

A machine, an apparatus that performs work.

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