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Date: 1-Mar-2000

Welcome to Lafz! We start off this series with 
the word 'lafz'.

Meaning:
Lafz - word

Couplet:
do chaar lafz kahake mai.n Khaamosh ho gayaa
vo muskuraa ke bole bahut bolate ho tum

ik lafz-e-muhabbat kaa adanaa saa fasaanaa hai
simaTe to dil-e-aashiq phaile to zamaanaa hai [Jigar]

Associated words:
lafzan - verbally
lafz-ba-lafz - word by word/verbatim
laffaaz - one who talks too much
laffaazii = talkativeness
alfaaz - words
lafzo.n - words

'alfaaz' and 'lafzo.n' can be sometimes be 
interchanged, and sometimes not. In the 
following sentences, they are not.

"apane lafzo.n m.en bayaa.N kiijiye" 
(Tell it in your own words)

"... mere paas alfaaz nahii.n hai"
"I don't have the words (to/for)..."

Some more couplets:
chaar lafzo.n me.n kaho jo bhii kaho 
us ko kab furasat sune fariyaad sab 
[Javed Akhtar]

is baar vo milaa to ajiib us kaa r.ang thaa 
alfaaz me.n tara.ng na lahajaa daba.ng tha 
[Himayat Ali Shayar]