Urdu Dictionary
Arabic · noun · Mind & Knowledge

Khayal

ख़याल
Meaning

Thought, idea, notion; imagination or fancy; a passing conception in the mind.

See it in the verse

Khayal in Iqbal’s couplets

Hayat kya hai khayal o nazar ki majzubi
Khudi ki maut hai andesha-ha-e-guna-gun
What is life? The absorbed focus of thought and vision; and scattered, many-coloured doubts are the death of selfhood.
Selfhood · Action · Self-Knowledge
Related words
ARABIC

Khayali

Imaginary, fanciful, ideal; existing in thought rather than reality.

ARABIC

Takhayyul

Imagination, fancy; the forming of mental images and conceptions.

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