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Jaan-bakhsh

जान-बख़्श
Meaning

Life-giving; reviving, that which bestows or restores life.

Literally: lit. life-bestowing

See it in the verse

Jaan-bakhsh in Iqbal’s couplets

Nigah buland, sukhan dilnawaz, jaan pur-soz
Yahi hai rakht-e-safar mir-e-karvan ke liye
A lofty gaze, speech that wins the heart, a soul that burns with feeling — this alone is the travelling kit a caravan's leader needs.
Leadership · Aspiration
Related words
PERSIAN

Jaan-aafreen

Life-creating; epithet of God as the giver of life, or that which enlivens.

PERSIAN

Lab-e-Jaanbakhsh

The life-bestowing lip; the lip whose word or breath gives life.

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