Word Meaning
तबीबों
tabeebon
Meaning
Physicians or traditional healers (plural oblique form).
Detailed Meaning
In Urdu poetics, 'tabeeb' refers to a medical doctor, physician, or traditional healer (hakim). Here, in the plural oblique form 'tabeebon', it refers to the physicians who examined the patient from various angles before declaring their assessment. Often in classical ghazals, the physicians are portrayed as baffled by the incurable ailment of love.
Etymology
Derived from the Arabic noun 'tabīb' (طَبِيب), from the triconsonantal root ṭ-b-b, meaning to practice medicine or heal.
Usage
In classical Urdu poetry, the tabeeb (healer) is conventionally contrasted with the helpless lover whose affliction is beyond the reach of medicine.
Examples
The physicians gave up on treating his broken heart.
No medicine prescribed by the healers could cure his longing.