Word Meaning
चीरूँ
chīrūñ
hiverb
Meaning
I cut open, slit, or tear through.
Detailed Meaning
The first-person singular present form of the verb 'cheerna', meaning to cut open, split, or lance. In the couplet, it describes the poet slitting open his own festering wounds, revealing broken arrowheads buried deep within. It evokes the intense physical and emotional anguish characteristic of classical Urdu poetic distress.
Etymology
From Sanskrit चीरयति (cīrayati, 'tears/splits') through Prakrit into Hindustani चीरना (chīrnā).
Usage
Commonly paired in the ghazal with archaic 'हूँ' (चीरूँ हूँ) to describe tearing one's collar or dissecting festering wounds of love.
Examples
whenever I cut open this hidden wound
if I tear open my breast in despair
Synonyms
काटूँफाड़ूँचाक करूँ
Related Words
चीरनाचाकज़ख़्मपैकान