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Persian · noun · Qualities & Descriptions
Chaploos-giri
जी-हुज़ूरी
also written: Ji-huzoori
Meaning
Colloquial: obsequious yes-sir-ing, servile fawning.
See it in the verse
Chaploos-giri in Iqbal’s couplets
Be-huzuri hai teri maut ka raaz
Zinda ho tu to be-huzur nahin
Absence from the present is the secret of your death; if you are truly alive, you are never absent.
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