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Platt’s Dictionaries

A searchable list of Urdu and Hindi words

Vaneeta’s Urdu-English Dictionary

A browsable list of Urdu Words – unfortunately, Yahoo! has discontinued Geocities and you need to access the archived versions of this resource

39 comments so far

  1. Tawhid on December 18, 2007

    Found youy site URL in youtube. I love the idea and effort you are putting in. I always wanted to know the meanings of some of my all time favourite ghazals.
    CHEERS mate!!

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  2. Shreyas on February 10, 2008

    I appreciate your efforts in compiling this website. I listen to ghazals all the time. Hindi, Urdu and Marathi…I love your collection, there are quite a few ghazals I hadnt heard before. I always had trouble understanding some Urdu shaire. I would search for translations online or bug my friends who understand Urdu better than I do….
    Your pages are surely another resource for me..
    Keep up the good work…

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  3. Vijay Hatewar on May 28, 2008

    Bahot khub , I appreciate what you are doing. I got navigated to your page after putting a query for lyrics of Jindgi raah main , and i realized i was singing few lines wrongly. 🙂 Thanks

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  4. Rachna on September 2, 2008

    Hi

    Very good effort! Could you please tell me the meaning of rindo…I love the album VISIONS by Jagjit singh…could you please upload the meaning of the ghazals in that album.

    Thanks!

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  5. girish sardessai on September 30, 2008

    you are doing a fantastic job,keep it up !!!!
    girishdsardessai@gmail.com

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  6. girish sardessai on September 30, 2008

    RACHNAJI RIND IS A PERSON WHO DRINKS ALCOHOL

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  7. girish sardessai on September 30, 2008

    RACHNAJI RIND IS A PERSON WHO DRINKS ALCOHOL (RINDO IS PLURAL )

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  8. Vipan Passi on December 6, 2008

    Wow !! What an excellent website to understand our favourite ghazals and other lovely songs. The enjoyment of a song increases if one understands the meaning of the words. Thanks a lot. I had been looking for something like this for years. Regards.
    Vipan Passi

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  9. Vipan Passi on March 22, 2009

    Please give the meaning of the ghazal ‘Nuktachin hai ghame dil’ from Mirza Ghalib. Not just the literal meaning of the words, but the meaning of all the couplets, especially the one ‘Ghair phirta hai liye yun tere khat ko, ki agar, koi pooche ke ye kya hai, to chhupaye na bane’. What is the poet conveying?
    Regards,
    Vipan Passi

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  10. rahulsale on April 15, 2009

    You are doing an excellent job.
    I have some thing like this to do for all our classical songs. But i am not having tha much knowledge of it.
    You have really done great job here…

    Keep it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  11. Mandar on May 11, 2009

    I am quite new to the Ghazal world and found your site while searching through Google. Just wanted to say thank you for putting such effort, I now stand clear of the many difficulties I had in understanding Ghazals!

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  12. Rajeev on May 19, 2009

    “The enjoyment of a song increases if one understands the meaning of the words” fully agree with Vipin – we are fortune to have this easy access – added to it the benefit of youtube – one of my favourites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgORG0PMGAU&feature=channel_page

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  13. Pranav on June 7, 2009

    I am very thankful for all effort you are putting to share all this information.

    I am also subscribed to your Youtube channel and that’s how I found your blog.

    Keep up the great work.

    Thanks.

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  14. Ayya on June 11, 2009

    I was looking for a web site like this. Thank you so much. Now after all these long years I can enjoy the music and know the meaning.

    Keep it up.

    Regards,
    Ayya

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  15. Ayya on June 11, 2009

    More people will visit your site if they only know of its existence. I will forward this link to my kids, friends etc.

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  16. Faiz on June 17, 2009

    This site is a must visit for every gazal lover. Qudos for the effort.

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  17. gayatri on July 10, 2009

    what happened to your youtube account??? I was one of your subscribers, i’m sure tons of people are missing it.

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  18. Shafiq on January 7, 2010

    Kindly let me know the meaning of the word “RAMZ”

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    • Mukund Palshikar on April 24, 2011

      Salaam Walekum,

      Shafiqbhai, Ramz means ‘secret’ or ‘mistery’.

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  19. Rakesh Dave on March 1, 2011

    You have put tremendous efforts!
    To me this is Encyclopedia of Ghazals.
    I would love to visit your blogs again and again!

    I am searching one Ghazal
    “RONE KA TO ALAM AISA THA
    HUM ZHOOM KE SAVAN TAK PAHUNCHEY”

    Pankaj Udhas sung it. I do not know name of Poet / Shayar / Ghazalist.

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    • Anonymous on April 30, 2019

      Manna Dey sang it before Pankaj Udas

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  20. Mukund Palshikar on April 24, 2011

    Salaam Walekum,

    I love this web-site like anything. It has improved my knowledge about gazals a lot. I came to know the meaning of many many great gazals. Please accept my sincere thanks to you. I expect to add more and more gazals which will be very pleasurable to Urdu lovers.

    Meanwhile, I would like to bring to your attention that a very popular gazal “Na kisi ki aankh kaa noor hoon” has been credited to “Bahadur Shah Jafar” in this web site. To the best of my knowledge and the available information, this gazal is written by a great poet “Muztar Khairabadi”. I request you to make this correction.

    Wish all the best to this web-site.

    Many thanks.
    Kavi Mukund

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  21. Bharat on October 8, 2011

    I was lucky to come to this blog and would keep on coming back to it to be able to understand the ghazals in more better way. I have been hearing lots of them since a long long time – specailly of ghulam ali – and still few things I could not understand even after asking around were mostly cleard here. thanks for the huge effort.

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  22. modgil vijay on November 18, 2011

    bahut hi aachi koshish hai jis hazaron ko fiada hoga

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  23. modgil vijay on November 18, 2011

    good try

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  24. Ajay on January 3, 2012

    A searchable urdu – english dictionary can be found at :
    http://www.poshmaal.com/urdu/

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  25. chetan lapshia on July 5, 2012

    such a wounderful job you have done , thank you very very much.
    chetan lapshia (gazal lover)

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  26. Sanjeev on September 16, 2012

    Thanks for your efforts. I was searching for the lyrics of ‘Zindagi mein to sabhi Pyar Liya karte Hain’ and then stumbled upon this site two days ago. And since then I must have visited this at least a dozen times to search for meaning of some urdu words. Bahot Bahot Sukriyaa !

    Sanjeev

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  27. Sanjeev on September 16, 2012

    Aologies for the Typo. I meant ‘Kiya’ and not ‘Liya’. 🙂

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  28. intelligent&unique on April 10, 2013

    thank you so much! I was looking for meaning of a gazal and directed here. I loved your blog! You have put in so much hard work.

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  29. Aliashesh on April 16, 2013

    I cannot but echo all the compliments you so richly deserve! Keep up the great work! It is a great service to humanity and ghazal lovers in South Asia.

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  30. kalind on April 28, 2013

    What an amazing work you guys are doing. It has helped me understand ghazals in a better way. Keep up the good work. Just one request… Can to give the meaning of the ghazal “who dil Nawaz hai lekin nazar shenas hai” by Nasir Kazmi and sung by our very great Ustad Mehdi Hassan

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  31. kalind on April 28, 2013

    sorry for the mistake its “who dil Nawaz hai lekin nazar shenas nahi”

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  32. Parag on June 28, 2013

    Excellent contribution to understanding meaning of Urdu words. SImply superb !

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  33. K V S Manian on March 18, 2014

    I like the website a lot . I visited it for the first time . Actually cam looking for the Jagjit Singh Ghazal ” Tere Qadmon me sar hoga” . Though I did not find it , I think I have a good place to come to for interpreting ghazals , which is my favourite form of music.

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  34. saidbyarshad on February 14, 2017

    Salam,
    Aapki iss khoobsurat website ke liye shukriya..
    Itme kareene se harr ek cheez ko sajaya hai aapne…
    Waakai! La-jawb hai…

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  35. Amit on December 17, 2017

    Wonderful efforts and highly accurate meanings. Thanks a lot:)
    Could you please help with – “Yeh Main Yeh Kuvedar Yeh Tanhai Doston”
    Written by Ahmad Faraz and sung by Ghulam Ali.
    It will be really helpful.
    Thanks

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  36. Anonymous on April 2, 2024

    Excellent translation and explanation

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  37. Anonymous on April 2, 2024

    Excellent and easy to follow translation ,, pls keep it like that always

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