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  2. Shayar (poet) - Wikipedia

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    The literal meaning of shayar (shaa'ir) is poet. [5] There are more than 30 types of Urdu poetry, also known as shayari. Examples of shayari are ghazal, sher, nazm, marsiya, qita and many more. [6] Traditionally, that this form of poetry is often read to an audience in a special setting called mehfil.

  3. Hindi literature - Wikipedia

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    In the 20th century, Hindi literature saw a romantic upsurge. This is known as Chhayavad , a type of neo-Romanticism, and the literary figures belonging to this school are known as Chhayavadi. Jaishankar Prasad , Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala' , Mahadevi Varma , and Sumitranandan Pant , are the four major Chhayavadi poets.

  4. Ghazal - Wikipedia

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    Radif: The refrain word or phrase. Both lines of the matla ' and the second lines of all subsequent shers must end in the same refrain word called the radif. Qafiya: The rhyming pattern. The radif is immediately preceded by words or phrases with the same end rhyme pattern, called the qafiya. Maqta': The last couplet of the ghazal is called the ...

  5. Majaz - Wikipedia

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    Asrar-ul-Haq (19 October 1911 to 5 December 1955), better known as Majaz Lakhnawi, was an Indian Urdu poet.He is known for his romantic and revolutionary poetry.He composed ghazals and nazms in Urdu.

  6. Urdu poetry - Wikipedia

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    The word "hamd" is derived from the Qur'an, its English translation is "Praise". Manqabat (منقبت): a Sufi devotional poem, in praise of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the son-in-law of Muhammad, or of any Sufi saint. Marsiya (مرثیہ): an elegy typically composed about the death of Hasan, Husayn, their relatives, and their companions.

  7. Romantic poetry - Wikipedia

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    Romantic poetry is the poetry of the Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. It involved a reaction against prevailing Neoclassical ideas of the 18th century, [ 1 ] and lasted approximately from 1800 to 1850.

  8. Category:Hindi words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    This category is not for articles about concepts and things but only for articles about the words themselves. Please keep this category purged of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase. See as example Category:English words.

  9. List of English words of Hindi or Urdu origin - Wikipedia

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    Many of the Hindi and Urdu equivalents have originated from Sanskrit; see List of English words of Sanskrit origin. Many loanwords are of Persian origin; see List of English words of Persian origin, with some of the latter being in turn of Arabic or Turkic origin. In some cases words have entered the English language by multiple routes ...