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Persian · noun · Nature & the Garden

Gandum

गंदुम
Meaning

Wheat; the grain associated with the forbidden fruit of Eden in Islamic tradition.

See it in the verse

Gandum in Iqbal’s couplets

Jis khet se dehqan ko muyassar nahin rozi
Us khet ke har khosha-e-gandum ko jala do
The field that does not yield its farmer even his daily bread — burn every ear of wheat in that field.
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Related words
SANSKRIT

Jau

Barley.

ARABIC

Ghalla

Grain; corn, cereal crops in general.

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