Word Meaning
गुज़रती
guzartī
Meaning
Passed, spent, or lived (referring to time or life passing by).
Detailed Meaning
In Urdu poetics, 'guzarnā' often implies the enduring or passing of life and time. In this couplet, it describes how life used to be spent pleasantly and freely in divine passion or madness before cold rationality acted as a shackle. The feminine form agrees with an elided subject, such as 'zindagī' (life) or 'umr' (lifespan).
Etymology
Derived from Persian 'guzashtan' (گذشتن / to pass, cross) via the present stem 'guzar' (گذر), combined with the Hindustani imperfective feminine verbal suffix '-tī'.
Usage
Frequently deployed in classical ghazals to evoke the painful endurance of nights of separation or nostalgia for how youth and life slipped away.
Examples
How splendidly life passed in your remembrance
Whatever the heart goes through cannot be told