कनारें

Meaning

Shores, banks, or edges (archaic feminine plural form).

Detailed Meaning

This is an archaic plural form of 'kanār' (shore, bank, or edge), treated here as grammatically feminine in classical Urdu idiom to agree with 'maujeñ' (waves). In this couplet, it poetically signifies that under the sheer longing for the river of beauty, every turbulent wave has itself transformed into a welcoming bank or shore. It carries both the literal image of riverbanks and the metaphorical sense of peaceful edges or embraces.

Etymology

Persian 'kinār' (کنار), meaning edge, border, shore, or bosom/embrace.

Usage

In classical ghazal diction, Persian 'kinār' was occasionally inflected as a feminine plural ('kināreñ') for rhyme and syntactic symmetry with feminine subjects like 'mauj'.

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