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Dasht-paimaa

दश्त-पैमा
also written: Dasht-paima
Meaning

Desert-measuring; one who wanders endlessly across the wilderness.

Literally: desert-traverser

How Iqbal uses it

The dasht-paimaa lover, like Majnun, paces out the wilderness because the city can no longer hold his madness.

See it in the verse

Dasht-paimaa in Iqbal’s couplets

Qalb o nazar ki zindagi dasht mein subh ka samaan
Chashma-e-aftab se nuur ki naddiyan ravaan
The life of the heart and the eye is like daybreak in the desert; from the spring of the sun, rivers of light flow out.
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Related words
PERSIAN

Dasht-navardi

Wilderness-roaming; the wandering of one who crosses the desert on foot.

PERSIAN

Sahra-navard

A desert-wanderer; one who roams the wilderness.

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