This post is a follow-up on "A Deluge of Verbs ...?" which reiterated the opinion that (non-compound) verbs are falling out of use in literary उर्दू. To arrive at a metric of this phenomenon, one method is to enumerate the verbs found in the works of famous poets. Who better to start off with than ग़ालिब्!
The following verbs encountered in दीवान्-ए ग़ालिब् have been extracted by me manually. Those listed in parenthesis occur as verbal nouns; however, because of the rather interrupted nature of this project, I've not been consistent in terms of exactly when I noted something down as a verbal noun and when I didn't. Nevertheless, this list gives a fairly good idea of the verbs which were in vogue in literary उर्दू; and things haven't change significantly since then.
This is a Work-In-Progress, and this post will get updated as and when I get the chance to pump effort into it.
Notes
- कर्ना and होना are not noted, but देना and लेना are.
- Verbs that occur in a रदीफ़् are noted just once under the "Common:" label for that ग़ज़ल्.
- The ग़ज़ल्s and शॆऽर्s are listed in the order they appear in "A Desertful of Roses" by Frances W. Pritchett.
The following verbs encountered in दीवान्-ए ग़ालिब् have been extracted by me manually. Those listed in parenthesis occur as verbal nouns; however, because of the rather interrupted nature of this project, I've not been consistent in terms of exactly when I noted something down as a verbal noun and when I didn't. Nevertheless, this list gives a fairly good idea of the verbs which were in vogue in literary उर्दू; and things haven't change significantly since then.
This is a Work-In-Progress, and this post will get updated as and when I get the chance to pump effort into it.
Notes
- कर्ना and होना are not noted, but देना and लेना are.
- Verbs that occur in a रदीफ़् are noted just once under the "Common:" label for that ग़ज़ल्.
- The ग़ज़ल्s and शॆऽर्s are listed in the order they appear in "A Desertful of Roses" by Frances W. Pritchett.