Qumri
The turtle-dove or ring-dove, a garden bird whose cooing is read as a cry of love and longing.
Literally: turtledove, ringdove
The qumri is the turtledove whose cooing is heard as ceaseless grieving, classically pictured mourning at the foot of the cypress — its grey collar read as a band of perpetual sorrow, its love bound to the tall, indifferent sarv. It is a companion-emblem to the nightingale in the garden's chorus of longing. Iqbal invokes it as another voice of devoted, captive lament within the same garden of yearning birds.
Bulbul
The nightingale, the songbird that pours out its longing for the rose in the classical garden lyric.
Faakhta
The ring-dove or wood-pigeon, a garden bird whose soft call evokes melancholy and devotion.
Andaleeb
The nightingale, an Arabic-rooted name for the same singing bird that grieves for the rose.