गूदड़

Meaning

Rags, tattered cloth scraps, or worthless stuffing and rubbish.

Detailed Meaning

Literally signifies rags, frayed cloth, or coarse scrap material stuffed into cushions and mattresses. In the verse, it forms a double meaning with 'qimāsh' (cloth/fabric) and 'dīwān' (mattress/poetry collection), deriding poor poets whose books are stuffed with worthless rubbish.

Etymology

From Deshya/Prakrit, cognate with Hindi and Old Indo-Aryan roots relating to patched rags (gudar/godari).

Usage

In Urdu poetry, it is employed either in Sufic contexts for the patched mantle of mendicants or satirically to mock shoddy craftsmanship and worthless verses.

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