कम-आज़ार

Meaning

Causing little harm or torment; inflicting minimal suffering.

Detailed Meaning

A Persian compound signifying someone or something that causes very little torment or injury. In the cited couplet of Ghalib, it is employed with biting irony to describe the world as insufficiently cruel relative to the poet's vast expectations of sorrow.

Etymology

Persian compound formed from 'kam' (little, scarce) and 'āzār' (torment, pain, distress).

Usage

Often used with poetic irony in ghazal poetry to mock the weakness of fate's torments when compared against the lover's immense capacity for grief.

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