Persian · noun · Iqbal's Emblems

Kabk

कब्क
said kabk
Meaning

The partridge, famed for its strutting mountain gait.

Usage & notes

The kabk, the hill-partridge with its proud rolling walk, is a Persian emblem of graceful, self-pleased motion; in the highland scenes Iqbal loved, the partridge belongs to the living company of the mountain alongside the eagle and the deer.