Word Meaning
गर्दन-ज़दनी
gardan-zadanī
Meaning
Deserving of decapitation or execution; worthy of having one's neck severed.
Detailed Meaning
A Persian compound meaning deserving or fit to be beheaded. In this couplet, it describes the candle whose fiery tongue (wick) does not remain silent, rendering it worthy of decapitation or having its wick snipped. It forms a neat rhetorical parallel with the moth being 'sokhtani' (fit to be burned).
Etymology
Persian: from 'gardan' (neck) + 'zadanī' (worthy of being struck/cut, from 'zadan' to strike + gerundive suffix '-ī').
Usage
In classical Urdu poetry, it is often used with wordplay around the trimming or snuffing of a candle's wick.
Examples
The candle's unrestrained tongue made it worthy of decapitation.
In the lover's code, speaking out of turn was deemed an offense worthy of execution.