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Ghurub-e-aftab

ग़ुरूब-ए-आफ़ताब
Meaning

The setting of the sun; sunset, the sinking of the daystar.

Literally: sunset

See it in the verse

Ghurub-e-aftab 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
ARABIC

Ghurub

The setting of the sun; sunset.

PERSIAN

Aftab

The sun; a common poetic word for the daystar, and for radiant glory.

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