अफ़्ज़ाइश

Meaning

Increase, enlargement, augmentation, or growth.

Detailed Meaning

Derived from Persian, afzaa'ish denotes an augmentation, growth, or intensification. In this verse, it is linked via izafat to 'dard-e-daroon' (inner suffering), capturing how the act of lamenting paradoxically magnified the speaker's hidden agony rather than soothing it. It carries a classical aesthetic weight often paired with abstract states of heart and soul.

Etymology

Persian 'افزایش' (afzāyish), noun of action from the stem of 'افزودن' (afzūdan, 'to increase').

Usage

In the Urdu ghazal, it is predominantly used in formal Persian genitive constructions (izafat) to express the mounting intensity of passion, grief, or longing.

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