दरिया-बार

Meaning

Copiously raining; shedding water or tears like an overflowing river.

Detailed Meaning

A compound adjective combining 'daryā' (river or ocean) and the suffix '-bār' (raining or shedding). In classical poetry, it typically qualifies either rain-laden clouds or eyes pouring rivers of tears. In Ghalib's couplet, it describes a torrential, deluge-bearing cloud generated even from the smoke of fire when confronting the followers of Ali.

Etymology

Persian: 'daryā' (sea/river) + agentive suffix '-bār' (from bāridan, to rain or scatter).

Usage

Commonly forms an izafat construct such as 'abr-e-dariya-baar' (torrential cloud) or 'chashm-e-dariya-baar' (weeping eye) in classical ghazals.

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