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Nasim Amrohvi or Syed Qaim Raza Taqvi (Urdu: نسیم امروہوی, romanized: Allamah Nasīm Amrohvī; (24 August 1908 – 28 February 1987) was a Pakistani Urdu poet, philosopher, and lexicographer who was born as Syed Qaim Raza Taqvi on 24 August 1908 in Amroha, British India.
He belonged to a Taqvi Syed family. His father was Syed Barjees Hussain Taqvi and his mother was Syeda Khatoon. His grandfather was Shamim Amrohvi who was bestowed the title Farazdaq-e-Hind (lit. "India's Farazdaq").
In 1950, he migrated to Pakistan after the independence in 1947, settling in Khairpur. He moved to Karachi in 1961 and eventually died there on 28 February 1987.
Work
Nasim Amrohvi was a member of Urdu Lughat Board. Over several years, he compiled an Urdu dictionary entitled Nasim-ul-Lughat. For each word Nasim-ul-Lughat provides not only its meaning, usage, and related proverbs but also the verses containing it. He also used to write Marsiya besides being a lexicographer.
Books
Some of his major works include:
Khutbat-e-Mushiran (1942)
Adabī kahāniyān̲
Nasīm ul-lug̲h̲āt, Urdū
Dust banu dust bana'u
Risālah tauz̤ih al-masāʼil. Translation of a book on Shīʻah doctrines by Abū al-Qāsim ibn ʻAlī Akbar al-Khūʼī
Mūmin-i āl-i Ibrāhīm. Two poems on Shiite themes
Musaddas-i Nasīm. On the prophet Muhammad
Farhang-i Iqbāl. Large book on the philosophy of Sir Muhammad Iqbal, 1877-1938, national poet of Pakistan
Urdū lug̲h̲at : tārīk̲h̲ī uṣūl par. Dictionary of Urdu language
Mars̲iyah-yi Josh. Elegy on the death of Josh Malihabadi (1896-1982), Urdu poet of Pakistan
Cashmah-yi g̲h̲am. Elegies, chiefly on the martyrs of the battle of Karbala
ʻAllāmah Iqbāl ke cāron̲ davāvīn. Dictionary of terms used in the works of Sir Muhammad Iqbal, 1877-1938, national poet of Pakistan
Nazm-e-Urdu
References
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- Nasim Amrohvi
- Nasim
- List of Muhajir people
- Hayat Amrohvi
- Amroha
- Sibt-e-Jaafar Zaidi
- List of people from Karachi
- Deaths in February 1987
- List of Urdu poets
- Index of Muhammad Iqbal–related articles
