Ghazal 63 of Hafez (6 couplets), in the original Persian as on Ganjoor, with a transliteration, a plain English translation, the meanings of key words and the traditional fâl-e Hâfez reading.
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What this fâl tells you
Even before something has fully opened, it draws admiration; your hopes are like a bud with many nightingales around it. Tradition reads this fal as reassurance that sincere longing is always answered by a healer, and that love can be found wherever you truly look. Your story is worth telling.
A traditional-style reading for reflection and enjoyment.
How this ghazal is built
radif: hast ("there is"). qâfiye: -ib (raghib, andalib, gharib, habib, salib, tabib, ajib).
Key words
| Word | Say it | Meaning (modern Persian) |
|---|---|---|
| ru-ye | face of (ezafe) (چهره) dictionary | |
| to | you dictionary | |
| کس | kas | anyone; with negative: no one dictionary |
| ندید | nadid | did not see, did not consider dictionary |
| و | va / o | and dictionary |
| هزارت | hezârat | you ... a thousand (= hezâr ... to râ) dictionary |
| raghib | rival in love dictionary | |
| هست | hast | there is dictionary |
| dar | in; door dictionary | |
| ghonche'i | (you are) a bud dictionary | |
| هنوز | hanuz | still, yet dictionary |
| sadat | you ... a hundred (= sad ... to râ) dictionary | |
| andalib | nightingale (بلبل) | |
| گر | gar | if (= agar) (اگر) dictionary |
| âmadam | I came dictionary | |
| be | to; for; with; in, by dictionary | |
| ku-ye | street, quarter (of) (کوچه) | |
| چندان | chandân | so long, only so much dictionary |
| gharib | stranger, someone far from home dictionary | |
| نیست | nist | is not; there is not dictionary |
| چون | chon | since, when; like dictionary |
| من | man | I, me dictionary |
| ân | that dictionary | |
| diyâr-e | land of dictionary | |
| هزاران | hezârân | thousands dictionary |
| فرق | fargh | difference dictionary |
| هر | har | every dictionary |
| jâ | place dictionary | |
| پرتو | parto | ray, light dictionary |
| کار | kâr | work; affair, matter dictionary |
| sowme'e | cloister, hermitage (place of formal piety) dictionary | |
| jelve | display, showing oneself dictionary | |
| میدهند | midahand | they give dictionary |
| ناقوس | nâghus | church bell dictionary |
| râheb | Christian monk dictionary | |
| نام | nâm | name, fame dictionary |
| salib | cross dictionary | |
| âshegh | lover dictionary | |
| shod | become (with khâhad: will become); became dictionary | |
| یار | yâr | beloved; friend dictionary |
| hâlash | his/her state dictionary | |
| نظر | nazar | sight; ahl-e nazar = people of insight, connoisseurs of beauty dictionary |
| نکرد | nakard | did not do dictionary |
| ey | O (vocative) dictionary | |
| khâje | master, lord dictionary | |
| dard | pain dictionary | |
| وگرنه | vagarna | otherwise dictionary |
| tabib | doctor (پزشک) dictionary | |
| فریاد | faryâd | cry, shout dictionary |
| Hâfez | Hafez, the poet's pen name (takhallos); literally "one who knows the Quran by heart" dictionary | |
| in | this dictionary | |
| همه | hame | all, whole dictionary |
| هرزه | harze | vain, idle; be harze = in vain (بیهوده) dictionary |
| هم | ham | also, too dictionary |
| ghesse'i | a story dictionary | |
| gharib | strange, rare dictionary |
Persian text: Ganjoor (ganjoor.net), Hafez, ghazal 63. Transliteration, translation, glosses and reading: Learn Persian Online.
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