Talk:چہ جائے کہ

More information about the Classical Persian root

@نعم البدل Could anything be said about the Classical Persian term? What does it mean in that language? ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 19:50, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

I'm not sure, I tried looking it up, but I couldn't explicitly find it in Persian dictionaries. If I had to throw a complete guess it would be to mean something like "in place of.."? Perhaps @Sameerhameedy can help with this? نعم البدل (talk) 20:01, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

@نعم البدل, @Lingo Bingo Dingo, it would mean something like "what place that" or I guess "in the place of" depending on context. Kind of a sum of its parts phrase, possibly doesn't qualify for a Persian entry. But I should note though that my family members who went to Urdu schools in Pakistan (as refugees) said they've never heard this phrase or were taught it in school. Maybe the lb should say "very literary" since both examples seem to be poetry?

But I personally don't know a lot about Urdu so I'll let you guys decide what the lb is. سَمِیر | Sameer (^{مشارکت‌ها} • ^{کتی من گپ بزن}) 00:48, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

@Sameerhameedy: Perhaps 'literary' is the best way to describe it, rather than 'formal'. It's definitely not a word that's spoken too commonly, but it is definitely used in Urdu. The examples given, aren't 'poetic' examples per se, they're religious or literary books. نعم البدل (talk) 01:12, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the responses. It may be preferred to link to the individual terms like {{bor|ur|en|term 1 term 2 etc}}, if feasible, in that case. ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 13:58, 4 November 2023 (UTC)