Word Meaning
उहदा
uhda
hinoun
Meaning
An office, rank, obligation, responsibility, or capacity to cope with.
Detailed Meaning
Refers primarily to an office, charge, or obligation, but classically appears in idioms like 'uhde se nikalna' meaning to acquit oneself of a challenge or measure up to a task. In this couplet, it conveys the helpless body's failure to even cope with or discharge the challenge posed by a tiny creature like an ant (mor).
Etymology
Arabic 'ahd (عَهْد, meaning covenant, pact, or commission) via Persian.
Usage
Commonly featured in ghazal poetry within idioms like 'uhde se nikalna' or 'uhda-bar-aa hona', expressing the lover's struggle to fulfill an impossible trial of passion.
Examples
To acquit oneself of the obligations of fidelity
Relieved at last of the arduous office of love
Synonyms
मंसबपदज़िम्मेदारीफ़रीज़ा
Related Words
उहदेदारउहदा-बराउहदा-बर-आई