Word Meaning
कबाबी
kabābī
hinoun
Meaning
A cook or seller of kebabs; one who roasts meat.
Detailed Meaning
A vendor or cook who roasts and sells skewered meat. In Urdu poetry, the intense agony of love is conventionally described through the lover's heart and liver burning and roasting like meat on fire. In this couplet, the gathering of yearning lovers is metaphorically portrayed as a kebab vendor's shop due to their roasting hearts and smoldering entrails.
Etymology
Arabic 'kabāb' (roasted meat) + Persian relational suffix '-ī'.
Usage
Used in classical ghazals within intense metaphors of passion, where lovers' roasted hearts turn the assembly into a kebab shop.
Examples
smoke from the kebab-maker's hearth
gathering at the kebab seller's stall
Synonyms
कबाब-फ़रोशबावर्चीनानबाई
Related Words
कबाबसीख़अंगीठीजिगर-कबाब