Sanskrit · noun · Nature & the Garden

Nadiyan

नदियाँ

also written: Nadi, Nadiya

Meaning

Rivers.

How Iqbal uses it

In Tarana-e-Hindi the thousand nadiyan playing in the land's lap give the homeland its life-breath, the rivers' vitality making the whole country the envy of paradise.

See it in the verse

Nadiyan in Iqbal’s couplets

Qalb o nazar ki zindagi dasht mein subh ka samaan
Chashma-e-aftab se nuur ki naddiyan ravaan

The life of the heart and the eye is like daybreak in the desert; from the spring of the sun, rivers of light flow out.

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Related words

PERSIAN

Daria

A river; also, by extension, the sea.

PERSIAN

Jooi

A small stream, brook, or watercourse threading through the garden or valley.

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