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Hosh Udna

होश उड़ना
also written: hosh udna
Meaning

To be stunned senseless with shock or fear.

Literally: for one's senses to fly away

See it in the verse

Hosh Udna in Iqbal’s couplets

Gesu-e-tabdar ko aur bhi tabdar kar
Hosh-o-khirad shikar kar qalb-o-nazar shikar kar
Make the radiant tresses more radiant still — capture sense and reason, hunt down the heart and the eye.
Love · Aspiration · Restlessness
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