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Nau-do-gyarah

नौ-दो-ग्यारह
Meaning

Colloquial idiom: to take to one's heels, make oneself scarce, flee ('nau-do-gyarah ho gaya').

Literally: nine-two-eleven

See it in the verse

Nau-do-gyarah in Iqbal’s couplets

Abhi tak aadmi sayd-e-zaboon-e-shahryari hai
Qayamat hai ki insaan nau-e-insaan ka shikari hai
Even now, the human being is the wretched prey of the rule of kings — it is a catastrophe that one human still hunts another.
Justice · Awakening
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Champat

Colloquial: slipped away, absconded, vanished ('champat ho gaya').

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