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Saamaan

सामान
also written: Saman
Meaning

Goods, luggage, belongings, or equipment.

How Iqbal uses it

Everyday word; means both travel luggage and household goods.

See it in the verse

Saamaan 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
SANSKRIT

Bojh

A load, burden, or weight.

ARABIC

Musaafir

A traveller or passenger.

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