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Kamsini Mai Bohat Shareer Thi Woh Ab Tou Shaitaan Hogaye Hogi

~ Jaun Elia

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ibtida e ishq hai rota hai kia // agay agay dekhiye hota hai kia

~ Mir Taqi Mir

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Say it now, three times 😂. Follow for more artwork!

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A couplet by #TimeUrdu moderator 

#urdu #urdu poetry #urdu shairi #timeurdu #zubairsiddiq

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I’m interested in the “’chai’ means tea” and “’chai’ is a type of tea, ‘tea’ means tea” divide in languages.

Team Chai:

Hindi - चाय (chaay)

Urdu - چائے (chai)

Arabic - شاي (shay)

Turkish - çay

Amharic - ሻይ (shayi)

Somali - shaah

Swahili - chai

Bosnian - čaj

Russian - чай (chai)

Greek - τσάι (tsai)

Chinese - 茶 (cha)

Thai - ชา (cha)

Portuguese - chá

Team Tea:

English - tea

German - tee

Danish - te

Dutch - thee

Africaans - tee

Yoruba - tii

Sudanese - téh

Hungarian - tea

French - thé

Italian - tè

Spanish - té

Team Neither:

Finnish - iltapäiväateria (also uses loanword ‘tee’)

Lithuanian - arbata

Japanese - お茶 (ocha)

Korean appears to use both 차 (cha) and 티 (ti)

My (completely unsupported, unresearched) theory is that Germanic and Romance languages tend toward the “tea” root, and other major language families tend toward “chai” especially languages spoken in largely Islamic areas (Arabic, Turkish, Amharic, Urdu) but there are many examples that break that pattern.

(Native speakers, please correct me! I do not speak these languages, can’t comment on everyday usage, and can only read Roman characters and Cyrillic. Google Translate was used for a large chunk of info.)

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ہر رگِ خوں میں پھر چراغاں ہو سامنے پھر وہ بے نقاب آئے Every fiber of my being will radiate light again Should she come out without her veil again Har Rage Khoon Main Phir ChiraghaN Hu Saamne Phir Woh Bey-Niqaab Aaye

Faiz Ahmed Faiz (via honeyandelixir)

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Every now and then a woman deserves to know that she’s loved, and when it comes to Farrukh Zaad, Nawab Asif Jahan makes sure that she does so.

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Doodles of old

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As a child, I was terrible at Urdu. I hated it, actually. But then, when I was in 5 class, I had a very good Urdu teacher who used to do calligraphy and basically I was not as terrible at Urdu anymore.

It’s so funny, now, that I desperately try to speak as much Urdu and find calligraphy to be soothing and fantastical. I used to want to move to ‘the West’ so I wouldn’t have to have Urdu lessons.

'Phoolon ki rani hoon main’

'I am the princess of flowers’

is what it says.

I hope you like it!

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Desi posters by http://9lines.net/

Dill brai farokht , qeemat sirf aik muskurahat

Phoolon ki shezadi

Jaani zidd na kr

Hadd kr di aap ne

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- Altaf Shahid

Selection from my nanajaan’s book

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2.19.2015

Translation: ranjish hi sahi dil hi dukhaane ke liye aa If it is grief so be it, come to break my heart again

aa phir se mujhe chhoR ke jaane ke liye aa Do come, if only for the act of leaving me again

Ammi has 7 brothers, all of whom have lived outside Pakistan for at least a part of their lives. One of my favorite stories that Ammi would always tell us growing up, involves Nani Ammi talking to Baray Mamu Jaan on the phone a couple months into him being gone after he left Pakistan for the second time. Nani Ammi, yes, narrated Faraz’s ghazal, in its entirety to mamu jan, telling him how much she missed her, using nothing but poetry.

And I know, every time I talk to her, Ammi has to try really hard to not repeat history. All she really wants is for me to come back, even if I were to leave again.

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All time fave. #urdu #calligraphy #dollarink

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… جاں نثاراختر

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.. اندراؔ ورما

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-Jaun Elia

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.,. شہزاد احمد