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Urdu · noun · Everyday Life
Chai-shai
चाय-शाय
Meaning
Tea and the like; refreshments.
Literally: tea-and-such
See it in the verse
Chai-shai in Iqbal’s couplets
Har shai musafir har cheez raahi
Kya chand tare kya murgh o maahi
Every thing is a traveller, every object a wayfarer — whether the moon and stars, or the birds and the fish.
Restlessness · Action · Unity
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