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Shayar (poet)

A shayar is a poet who composes sher in the Urdu language. They are not restricted to writing only in Urdu, but can write in Hindi, Urdu and Persian. Commonly, a shayar is someone who writes ghazals, nazms using the Urdu language. One does not need to know how to write in Urdu in order to write a ghazal.

Shayar

Shayar may refer to:

  • Shayar (poet), poet who wrote Sher in the Urdu or Hindi language.
  • Shayar, Iran, a village in Kurdistan Province, Iran
  • Xayar County, or Shayar County, Xinjiang, China
  • Xayar Town, seat of Xayar County
  • Shayar (1949 film), a 1949 film starring Dev Anand