Date: 15-Mar-2001
Word of the day: 'baaG'


Meaning:

baaG - garden [Persian, masculine]

** Note: 'baaG' is written with 'Gain', a letter of the 
Urdu alphabet that has a hard 'G' sound that is not found 
in Hindi. It is written in Devnagri with a dot below the 
alphabet 'g' which corresponds to the letter 'gaaf' in 
Urdu. People not familiar with the Urdu language often 
mix up the two. ** 

Couplet:

baaG me.n lagataa nahii.n saharaa se ghabaraataa hai jii
ab kahaa.N le jaake baiThe.n aise diivaane ko ham
[Nazeer Akbarabadi]


Associated word(s):

1) baaG_baa.N - gardener [Persian, masculine]

2) baaG_baanii - gardening [Persian, feminine]

3) baaG_baan-e-azal - God [Persian/Arabic, masculine]

4) baaG-baaG - (to be) very happy/overjoyed [Persian]

gesuu-e-yaar kii havaa aaj baaG-baaG hai
Gam hai so phuul phuul hai dil hai so daaG-daaG hai
[Unknown]

5) baaGiichaa - small garden [Persian, masculine]

6) baaG-e-bahisht - paradise [Persian/Arabic, masculine]

baaG-e-bahisht se mujhe hukm-e-safar diyaa thaa kyo.n
kaar-e-jahaa.N daraaz hai ab meraa intazaar kar
[Sir Mohammed Iqbal]

7) baaG-e-rizvaa.N, baaG-e-Khuld, baaG-e-adan - paradise