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Reg-e-Rawan

रेग-ए-रवाँ
said REG-e-ra-WAAN
also written: reg-e-ravan, reg-i-rawan
Meaning

Quicksand; flowing, shifting desert sand.

Literally: moving sand

See it in the verse

Reg-e-Rawan 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

Reg

Sand, the fine grains that make up the desert floor.

PERSIAN

Registan

A sandy desert; land of sand.

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Sahra / Dasht

Desert, wilderness, open wasteland.

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