Word Meaning
जुनूँ-जौलाँ
junoon-jaulaan
Meaning
Wandering frantically in passionate madness; wildly roving in ecstasy or frenzy.
Detailed Meaning
A compound adjective combining the Arabic 'junūn' (madness, passion) and 'jaulān' (roaming, coursing). In classical Urdu poetry, it conveys the relentless, ecstatic wandering of a lover driven mad by love. In this verse by Ghalib, it depicts the destitute lover whose desperate, wandering passion is so elevated that nature itself ministers to him.
Etymology
Arabic 'junūn' (possession, madness) + Arabic/Persian 'jawlān' (galloping, roving).
Usage
Commonly employed in the ghazal to portray the restless, Majnun-like roaming of the lover in the wasteland of passion.
Examples
A junoon-jaulaan traveler roaming the barren wilderness
His junoon-jaulaan spirit could find no stillness