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Az Hai Aav Paane Baalyaar

Writer: Vishal KachrooVishal Kachroo

Updated: Jan 21, 2024

अज़ हय आव पानॖ बालॖयार

Poet: S K Bhan

Singer: Dr. Deepali Wattal

Singer: Kuldeep Kalla

Devanagari Transliteration: Vishal Kachroo

English Translation: Vishal Kachroo


 


ल्वलि ललॖनोवुम अमार

अज़ हय आव पानॖ बालॖयार

तिफलॖ द्रावय म्योन लॊकॖचार

अज़ हय आव पानॖ बालॖयार

English Translation

I cradle (ललॖनोवुम) the longing (अमार) for you, close to my bosom (ल्वलि)

My dear old friend (from my youth) (बालॖयार) is here today

My childhood was full of innocent impishness (तिफलॖ)

My dear old friend (from my youth) (बालॖयार) is here today

अज़ हय आव पानॖ बालॖयार

अज़ हय आव पानॖ बालॖयार

ल्वलि ललॖनोवुम अमार

अज़ हय आव पानॖ बालॖयार

English Translation

My dear old friend (from my youth) (बालॖयार) is here today

My dear old friend (from my youth) (बालॖयार) is here today

I cradle (ललॖनोवुम) the longing (अमार) for you, close to my bosom (ल्वलि)

My dear old friend (from my youth) (बालॖयार) is here today

वॆसिए छुम हय चिकॖचाव

महाराज़ॖ म्योन हय आव

वथरसॖ पोशॖ अम्बार

अज़ हय आव पानॖ बालॖयार

English Translation

My friend (girl) (वॆसिए), I feel the exuberance of my youth (चिकॖचाव)

My 'Maharaza' (groom) is here

I want to adorn (वथरसॖ) him with heaps of flowers (पोशॖ अम्बार)

My dear old friend (from my youth) (बालॖयार) is here today

चॉनी बॖ च़ॆय निश दूर

करॖ क्याह बॖ कॉशॖर कूर

म्यानि कनि छुय परवरदिगार

अज़ हय आव पानॖ बालॖयार

English Translation

I am yours (चॉनी बॖ), yet far away from you (च़ॆय निश दूर)

What am I to do, I am but a modest Kashmiri Girl

My God (परवरदिगार) is my advocate (म्यानि कनि)

My dear old friend (from my youth) (बालॖयार) is here today

तिफलॖ द्रावय म्योन लॊकॖचार

अज़ हय आव पानॖ बालॖयार

अज़ हय आव पानॖ बालॖयार

अज़ हय आव पानॖ बालॖयार

English Translation

My childhood was full of innocent impishness (तिफलॖ)

My dear old friend (from my youth) (बालॖयार) is here today

My dear old friend (from my youth) (बालॖयार) is here today

My dear old friend (from my youth) (बालॖयार) is here today

क्याह करि गोर तय पीर

च़ॆ तॖ मॆ छु कुन तकदीर

च़ॖय हा म्यानि आदॖनुक यार

अज़ हय आव पानॖ बालॖयार

English Translation

What can the Gor (hindu priest) (गोर) or Pir (musalmaan priest) (पीर) do

You and me are destined to be together (कुन तकदीर)

You are the love of my youth (आदॖनुक यार)

My dear old friend (from my youth) (बालॖयार) is here today

आव हय आव हय पानॖ बालॖयार

अज़ हय आव पानॖ बालॖयार

ल्वलि ललॖनोवुम अमार

अज़ हय आव पानॖ बालॖयार

English Translation

My dear old friend (from my youth) (बालॖयार) is here today

My dear old friend (from my youth) (बालॖयार) is here today

I cradle (ललॖनोवुम) the longing (अमार) for you, close to my bosom (ल्वलि)

My dear old friend (from my youth) (बालॖयार) is here today

दीदन वॖछ म्योन हाल

प्रारान गोम यॅच़काल

ऎम्य हा कॊरनम पारॖ पार

अज़ हय आव पानॖ बालॖयार

English Translation

Please see (दीदन वॖछ) my plight (हाल)

I have been waiting (प्रारान) for ages (यॅच़काल)

He has reduced me to fragments (पारॖ पार) (made me full of holes)

My dear old friend (from my youth) (बालॖयार) is here today


'Deedan' is a persian word for 'seeing'

कबील ह्यथ आव सालय

वुदॖ इसॖबन्द ज़ालय

ॲस्य हा चॉन्य ताब्यहदार

अज़ हय आव पानॖ बालॖयार

English Translation

He has come with his whole family (कबील)

Will burn 'Vudhe' (वुदॖ) and 'Isbandh' (इसॖबन्द) seeds

I am always obedient (ताब्यहदार) to you

My dear old friend (from my youth) (बालॖयार) is here today


[Vudhe Seeds: When a bridegroom or bride are about to set forth for the wedding (or on similar occasions) this seed is burnt before them with appropriate spells, in order to ward off the evil eye, demons, ghosts, or similar evils.

Isbandh Seeds: A species of the mustard seeds used for the same purpose as Vudhe]



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Links to Grierson Dictionary for difficult words in this poem

ल्वलि

​the inner part of a dress where it covers the bosom, the bosom of a dress


For example in the expression ल्वल-मत लाय : affectionately stroking all over (with reference either to a beloved child, or some beautiful and admired object).


https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/grierson_query.py?page=522


​ललॖनोवुम

​to take to one's breast (cf. lŏl); hence, to fondle, dandle, protect


lalawun 1

​अमार

longing, yearning

​तिफलॖ

​The impishness (mischievousness of a child)

​चिकॖचाव

​the intoxication of youth


cikacāv


​दीदन

to see (in Persian)

​पारॖ पार

​to break, or smash to pieces; to make full of holes; to tear to pieces


pāra 1

​ताब्यहदार

submissive (Persian)



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