Persian · noun · Mind & Knowledge

Hunar

हुनर
said hu-NAR
Meaning

Skill, art, accomplishment; a cultivated ability or craft.

Literally: skill; talent; accomplishment; art

Usage & notes

Hunar is skill, talent, or accomplishment, the mastered ability that raises a worker or an artist above the common. Iqbal prizes hunar as a sign of an active, creative self, and contrasts the people rich in it with the idle and the merely ornamental. Skill, like art, earns its honour by what it builds.