Word Meaning
अक्स-फ़रोश
aks-farosh
Meaning
Seller or projector of reflections; one who displays illusions or images.
Detailed Meaning
A compound describing someone or something that trades in, exhibits, or presents reflections and visual appearances. In the couplet, it characterizes the gaze ('nigah') as merely offering superficial reflections, working in tandem with the imagination to create an illusory spectacle. It conveys the deceptive, transient nature of worldly sensory perception.
Etymology
Arabic 'aks' (reflection, image) + Persian 'farosh' (seller/vendor, stem of farukhtan).
Usage
In classical Urdu poetry, it is used metaphorically to evoke the deceptive, mirror-like illusions of sight and the material world.
Examples
a gaze that turns seller of reflections
caught in the bazaar of shadows and reflections