चट-पट

Meaning

Quickly, instantly; finished off, dead or destroyed in an instant.

Detailed Meaning

In poetry and colloquial idiom, 'chat-pat' denotes extreme rapidity, often with the dramatic sense of being destroyed or extinguished without delay. In this couplet, it serves as an idiom for meeting an instant death upon suffering an injury of love to the heart. It pairs playfully with the onomatopoeic 'chat' in the first half of the line to emphasize how swiftly a lover perishes.

Etymology

Hindustani onomatopoeic / expressive reduplication (Deshya root).

Usage

In classical Urdu ghazal, such colloquial onomatopoeic idioms are often deployed for dramatic immediacy and phonetic wordplay.

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