Word Meaning
नाज़-बर्दारियाँ
nāz-bardāriyāṅ
Meaning
Acts of enduring whims, humoring caprices, or pampering coquettish demands.
Detailed Meaning
Refers to the prolonged acts of pampering, indulging, and tolerating the beloved's pride, flirtatious airs, or difficult whims. In this couplet, it evokes the exhausting threshold where long-standing endurance of the beloved's coquettish cruelty becomes an unbearable affliction. It contrasts the lover's steadfast submissiveness with the sheer weariness of prolonged suffering.
Etymology
Persian compound formed from 'nāz' (coquetry, pride, grace) and the agentive 'bardār' (from 'bardāshtan', to bear/carry), with the abstract noun suffix '-ī' and the Hindustani plural marker '-āṅ'.
Usage
A frequent motif in classical ghazal poetry to denote the patient lover's continuous submission to the beloved's aloof and whimsical temperament.
Examples
Long were the days of humoring your haughty ways.
The heart grew weary of enduring endless caprices.