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Saad

साद
also written: Su'd
Meaning

Cyperus; the Arabic name for the aromatic nut-grass tuber used in Unani medicine.

See it in the verse

Saad in Iqbal’s couplets

Afsos sad-afsos ki shahin na bana tu
Dekhe na teri aankh ne fitrat ke ishaarat
A pity, a hundred pities, that you never became a falcon; your eye never read the signs that nature held out.
The Falcon · Awakening · Aspiration
Related words
SANSKRIT

Nagarmotha

Nut-grass (Cyperus rotundus); its aromatic tubers are a digestive and fever remedy.

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