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Daftar

दफ़्तर
said daf-tar
Meaning

A register, ledger or volume; also an office.

How Iqbal uses it

A bound record or volume; in classical usage a whole book of a long work, as the daftars of Rumi's Masnavi.

See it in the verse

Daftar 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

Kitaab

A book.

ARABIC

Varaq

A leaf or page of a book; also a thin sheet of metal foil.

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