Urdu Dictionary
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Sad

सद
Meaning

Hundred; the Persian numeral for a hundred, as in sad-barg, hundred-petalled.

See it in the verse

Sad 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
PERSIAN

Dah

Ten; the Persian numeral ten, the base of the counting system.

PERSIAN

Hazar

A thousand; often used loosely for a great many, as in hazar-dastan, the thousand-tale nightingale.

SANSKRIT

sau

Hundred.

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