ख़ब्ती

Meaning

Eccentric, crazy, mentally unbalanced, or obsessed.

Detailed Meaning

The word refers to someone afflicted with mental instability, eccentricity, or an obsessive passion. In the given couplet, it is cataloged among various degrees of madness (alongside sidi, majnoon, and deewana) to illustrate the tragic, crazed state of souls living in the wilderness of the mortal world.

Etymology

Arabic, derived from 'khabt' (meaning confusion, striking blindly, madness) with the nisba suffix '-i'.

Usage

In Urdu poetry, it usually characterizes an obsessed lover or eccentric persona who has lost all conventional sanity.

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