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Tarkib

तरकीब
said tar-KEEB
also written: Tarkeeb,Tarkib
Meaning

A grammatical or poetic construction — a compound phrase or the way words are combined in a line.

Literally: composition, putting together

Related words
PERSIAN

Bandish

A restriction, restraint, or binding limitation.

ARABIC

Izafat

The Persian grammatical construction linking two words with a short '-e-' (as in gul-e-surkh), pervasive in Urdu and Persian poetic diction.

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