Urdu · proper noun · Mind & Knowledge

Goethe

गोएटे

said GUR-te

also written: goete, goethe, gyote, johann wolfgang von goethe

Meaning

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), the German poet Iqbal deeply admired; his 'West-östlicher Divan' and 'Faust' inspired Iqbal's own East-West dialogue and his Payam-e-Mashriq (Message of the East).

Related words

PERSIAN

Payam-e-Mashriq

The Message of the East; the East's reply to the West, title of Iqbal's Persian collection answering Goethe's Divan.

PERSIAN

Firang / Maghrib

The West, Europe — literally “the Franks.”

ARABIC

Mashriq

The East, the Orient (the opposite of maghrib, the West).

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