Word Meaning
ख़र्च
kharch
hinoun
Meaning
Expense, expenditure, outflow, consumption, or disbursement.
Detailed Meaning
In classical Urdu, 'kharch' primarily denotes expenditure, consumption, or outflow. In this verse, coupled with 'jam' (intake/accumulation) in the accounting idiom 'jam-o-kharch', it refers to the outflow or disbursement of the river. The poet compares the immense scale of his weeping to the entire debit and credit of an ocean or river.
Etymology
From Arabic خَرْج (kharj), meaning 'exit, outflow, expenditure'.
Usage
Frequently combined with 'jam' in ghazal poetry to invoke the metaphor of financial accounting for existential or emotional balance.
Examples
the total expense of life is measured in sighs
in love's ledger, weeping is the sole expense
Synonyms
व्ययलागतसरफ़
Related Words
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