Urdu · proper noun · Nation, Faith & Society
Yurp
यूरोप
said YOO-rop
also written: europe, yurop, yorap, europa
Meaning
Europe (the English name borrowed into Urdu); the continent of modern science, empire and philosophy whose three years of study (1905-1908) shaped Iqbal's lifelong dialogue with the West.
Related words
PERSIAN
Farang
The land of the Franks — Europe and the West; in Iqbal the emblem of dazzling but soulless modern civilisation and material power.
PERSIAN
Firang / Maghrib
The West, Europe — literally “the Franks.”
PERSIAN
Tahzeeb-e-Hazir
'Modern / present-day civilization' — the contemporary Western order. Iqbal's standing critique: brilliant in science and machinery, hollow at the centre, having lost God and the soul.