Word Meaning
कोहसार-साज़
kohsār-sāz
hiadjective
Meaning
Mountain-maker; forming, carving, or raising vast mountains.
Detailed Meaning
A compound formed from 'kohsar' (mountain range) and '-saz' (maker/builder). In poetic diction, it denotes an agent that builds or conjures monumental, mountainous heights out of modest elements. In this couplet, it qualifies how the speaker's helplessness sculpts vast, insurmountable mountains out of despair and lamentation.
Etymology
Persian: composed of 'kohsār' (mountainous place) + 'sāz' (present stem of 'sākhtan', meaning to make or construct).
Usage
Used hyperbolically in classical ghazal to magnify the sheer weight, fortitude, or barrier of human sorrow.
Examples
His grief was a mountain-maker, turning dust to peaks.
The weeping lover proved a mountain-maker of sorrow.
Synonyms
कोह-तराशपर्वत-निर्माताकोह-अफ़रोज़
Related Words
कोहसारसाज़कोहकनफ़रियाद