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Urdu Dictionary
Urdu · idiom · Character & Virtue
Char chaand lagana
चार चाँद लगाना
Meaning
To greatly enhance the glory or splendour of something.
Literally: to add four moons
See it in the verse
Char chaand lagana 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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