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Dabdaba

दबदबा
said dab-da-ba
Meaning

Imposing grandeur, awe-inspiring authority, commanding sway.

How Iqbal uses it

The visible aura of power that makes others yield; used of kings, conquerors and overawing presence.

See it in the verse

Dabdaba in Iqbal’s couplets

Kya dabdaba-e-nadir kya shaukat-e-taimuri
Ho jaate hain sab daftar gharq-e-mai-e-naab aakhir
What of Nadir's dread power, what of Timur's splendour? In the end every such record is drowned in the pure wine of time.
Humility · Self-Knowledge · Adversity
Related words
ARABIC

Rob

Awe, commanding impressiveness, the power to intimidate or overawe.

ARABIC

Haibat

Awe and reverential dread before the majesty of God, the counterpart to intimate love.

ARABIC

Shaukat

Magnificence, grandeur, pomp, imposing power.

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