Persian · noun · Nature & the Garden

Bahaar

बहार

said ba-haar

also written: baharen

Meaning

Spring, the season of bloom and renewal when the garden returns to life.

How Iqbal uses it

Bahaar is Iqbal's great image of communal flourishing and rebirth, the springtime of a people when the dead garden bursts again into colour and song. It stands against the autumn of decline, promising that withered nations and souls can blossom anew.

See it in the verse

Bahaar in Iqbal’s couplets

Aata hai yaad mujh ko guzra hua zamana
Wo bagh ki baharen, wo sab ka chahchahana

I remember the time that has passed — those springtimes of the garden, that chorus of every bird singing.

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Related words

PERSIAN

Khizaan

Autumn, the season of withering when leaves fall and the garden fades.

ARABIC

Fasl

A season, or the harvest of a season; a span of crop and weather.

PERSIAN

Sabza

Greenery, fresh young verdure and grass springing up in the garden.

PERSIAN

Sahn-e-Chaman

The open courtyard or expanse of the garden, the level ground where the flowers grow.

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