Word Meaning
ख़ुश-क़दाँ
khush-qadāñ
Meaning
Those with graceful, tall, or beautiful statures; elegant-bodied beloveds.
Detailed Meaning
A Persian plural compound designating beauties blessed with graceful, upright, and symmetrical statures. In classical verse, it frequently compares the beloved's posture to a cypress tree. In this couplet, it denotes tall, attractive beloveds whose poise on horseback captivates even the cypress and the turtledove.
Etymology
Persian: compound of khush (pleasing/fine) + Arabic-derived qad (stature) + Persian plural suffix -ān.
Usage
Frequently used in the ghazal tradition to evoke the elegant, upright, and captivating cypress-like stance of the beloved.
Examples
When those graceful-statured beauties walked into the garden, the cypress fell silent.
The assembly was illuminated by the arrival of the tall-statured ones.