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Jabin

जबीं
said ja-BEEN
also written: jabeen, jabin
Meaning

The forehead or brow; in poetry the brow bowed in prostration or lit with radiance.

See it in the verse

Jabin in Iqbal’s couplets

Kabhi ai haqeeqat-e-muntazir nazar aa libas-e-majaz mein
Ki hazaron sajde tarap rahe hain meri jabeen-e-niyaz mein
O long-awaited Truth, show yourself once in the dress of the visible — for a thousand prostrations are stirring restlessly on my brow of longing.
Love · Aspiration · Restlessness
Related words
PERSIAN

Peshani

The forehead.

ARABIC

Sujood

Prostration in worship, especially the repeated prostrations of the ritual prayer.

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