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Sahra-navardi

सहरानवर्दी
also written: Sahranawardi
Meaning

Roaming the deserts; wandering through the wilderness.

Literally: desert-traversing

See it in the verse

Sahra-navardi in Iqbal’s couplets

Sama sakta nahin pahna-e-fitrat mein mera sauda
Ghalat tha ai junun shayad tera andaza-e-sahra
My passion cannot be contained even in the vastness of nature; O madness, perhaps your measure of the desert was wrong.
Restlessness · Aspiration · Selfhood
Related words
PERSIAN

Sahra-gard

A wanderer of the desert; one who roams the wilderness.

PERSIAN

Rah-navard

A tireless traveller who covers great distances; a wanderer.

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