Word Meaning
ताक़त-रुबा
taaqat-ruba
hiadjective
Meaning
Strength-depriving, exhausting, or sapping one's power and endurance.
Detailed Meaning
A Persian-style compound adjective meaning that which steals or drains one's strength, vigor, or endurance. In this couplet, it describes 'fitna' (turmoil or seductive mischief), emphasizing how the beloved's overwhelming beauty or cruelty completely saps the lover's power to endure.
Etymology
Arabic 'ṭāqat' (strength, power) + Persian 'rubā' (present stem of 'rubūdan', to seize, steal).
Usage
Commonly used in classical ghazal to attribute an exhausting, disarming effect to the beloved's coquetry, beauty, or torment.
Examples
Her glance proved so strength-sapping that the heart could not recover.
The relentless sorrow of parting was utterly exhausting.
Synonyms
होश-रुबाताक़त-गुदाज़जान-लेवा
Related Words
ताक़तदिल-रुबासब्र-आज़माफ़ित्ना