Word Meaning
दिल-आज़ारियाँ
dil-aazaariyaan
Meaning
Acts of tormenting the heart, cruelties, or causing emotional pain to lovers.
Detailed Meaning
Refers to repeated acts of wounding, tormenting, or breaking someone's heart, characteristically attributed to a cruel or capricious beloved. In this couplet, the poet laments that although a whole world of lovers has perished because of the beloved, the beloved's heart-tormenting habits remain unbroken.
Etymology
Persian compound from 'dil' (heart) + 'āzārī' (torment/injury), with the Hindustani feminine plural ending '-āñ'.
Usage
A frequent motif in classical ghazal poetry expressing the lover's grievance against the beloved's habitual cruelty and indifference.
Examples
These heart-tormenting ways of yours can no longer be endured.
The heart-wounding cruelties of the beloved destroyed my peace.