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  2. Lifebuoy - Wikipedia

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    Lifebuoy with emergency light on a cruise ship A lifebuoy floating on water. A lifebuoy or life ring, among many other names (see § Other names), is a life-saving buoy designed to be thrown to a person in water to provide buoyancy and prevent drowning. [1] Some modern lifebuoys are fitted with one or more seawater-activated lights to aid ...

  3. Urdu literature - Wikipedia

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    Urdu literature (Urdu: ادبیاتِ اُردُو, “Adbiyāt-i Urdū”) comprises the literary works, written in the Urdu language. While it tends to be dominated by poetry , especially the verse forms of the ghazal ( غزل ) and nazm ( نظم ), it has expanded into other styles of writing, including that of the short story, or afsana ...

  4. Urdu ghazal - Wikipedia

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    The Urdu ghazal makes use of a store of common characters, settings, images, and metaphors that inform both readers and poets of how to navigate the aforementioned ghazal universe. [33] These tropes have been cultivated for hundreds of years and are meant to deeply resonate with listeners of the ghazal, invoking their expectations of meaning. [33]

  5. Pakistani literature - Wikipedia

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    Pakistani literature (Urdu: ادبیاتِ پاکستان) is a distinct literature that gradually came to be defined after Pakistan gained nationhood status in 1947, emerging out of literary traditions of the South Asia. [1] The shared tradition of Urdu literature and English literature of British India was inherited by

  6. List of Urdu novelists - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version ... This is a list of notable Urdu language writers with their date of birth who wrote Novels in ...

  7. Lifebuoy (soap) - Wikipedia

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    Lifebuoy is a British brand of soap marketed by Unilever. Lifebuoy was originally, and for much of its history, a carbolic soap containing phenol (carbolic acid, a compound extracted from coal tar).

  8. Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi - Wikipedia

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    Urdu title English translation Date Description Ref Mirat-ul-Uroos: the Bride’s mirror 1869 This is the first novel written by Ahmad and it is also the first novel of Urdu literature. It is the story of two sisters, Asghari and Akbari. Asghari was younger sister and she was really intelligent, doing every thing with wisdom and intelligence.

  9. Urdu alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Urdu alphabet (Urdu: اُردُو حُرُوفِ تَہَجِّی‌, romanized: urdū ḥurūf-i tahajjī) is the right-to-left alphabet used for writing Urdu. It is a modification of the Persian alphabet, which itself is derived from the Arabic script. It has co-official status in the republics of Pakistan, India and South Africa.