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Date: 08-May-2000
Word of the Day: 'haif'

Meaning:

haif - alas!


Couplet:

haif us chaar girah kapa.De kii qismat 'Ghalib' 
jis kii qismat me.n ho aashiq kaa garebaa.N honaa 
[Mirza Ghalib]

[girah = a measure of cloth (one sixteenth of a yard)]
[qismat = fate; garebaa.N = collar]