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Date: 26-Apr-2001
Word of the day: 'hilaal'
Meaning:
hilaal - crescent moon [n. mas. Arabic]
Note: 'hilaal' is often used by itself to mean 'new moon'.
Couplet:
roze kii Khushkiyo.n se jo hai.n zard zard gaal
Khush ho gaye vo dekhate hii iid kaa hilaal
[Nazeer Akbarabadi]
Associated word(s):
1. hilaal_numaa - like a new moon [adj. Arabic/Persian]
2. hilaalii - like a new moon [adj. Arabic]
3. hilaal-e-iid - moon of Eid [n. mas. Arabic]
hamaarii iid to hai dekhane par tere abaruu ko
hilaal-e-iid ko ai mah_jabii.n dekhaa to kyaa dekhaa
[Bahadur Shah Zafar]
4. hilaal-e-nau - new moon [n. mas. Arabic/Persian]
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