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Dabdaba banana

दबदबा बनाना

Meaning

To establish an awe-inspiring authority.

Literally: to create one's overawing presence

See it in the verse

Dabdaba banana 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

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