Word Meaning
नाज़ुक-बदन
naazuk-badan
Meaning
Delicate-bodied, tender, having a fragile or slender physique.
Detailed Meaning
A Persian compound adjective describing an exquisitely tender, fragile, or graceful body, almost universally applied to the beloved in poetry. In the cited couplet, it underlines a playful poetic hyperbole (husn-e-ta'leel) where merely walking in a lover's dream overnight made the beloved's feet ache from exertion.
Etymology
Persian compound: composed of 'nāzuk' (tender, fine, delicate) and 'badan' (body, torso, originally Arabic adopted into Persian).
Usage
A staple epithet in classical Urdu ghazal used to illustrate the hyper-fragile beauty and ethereal lightness of the beloved.
Examples
The delicate-bodied beloved could scarcely bear the weight of a flower garland.
Even moonlight seemed too harsh for that tender-bodied youth.