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Sehra-Navard

सहरा-नवर्द
said SEH-raa-na-WARD
also written: sahra-navard, sehra-nawardi
Meaning

A desert-wanderer; one who traverses the wilderness on foot.

Literally: desert-traverser

See it in the verse

Sehra-Navard 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

Sahra / Dasht

Desert, wilderness, open wasteland.

ARABIC

Musafir

A traveller, wayfarer.

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