आवारा-गर्द

Meaning

A wanderer, vagrant, or someone roaming aimlessly through streets.

Detailed Meaning

This compound refers to a wanderer or vagrant who roams aimlessly without a home or destination. In classical Urdu ghazal, it frequently symbolizes the desperate lover roaming the beloved's street or the wilderness in emotional turmoil. In this couplet, it represents the speaker's former restlessness in contrast to his present state of frail, motionless exhaustion.

Etymology

Persian compound of 'āwāra' (homeless, destitute) and 'gard' (from 'gardīdan', to turn or wander).

Usage

In classical ghazal poetry, it evokes the distraught lover wandering endlessly in pursuit of the beloved.

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