Word Meaning
नवा-संजान
navā-sanjān
Meaning
Singers, songbirds, or musical performers (plural).
Detailed Meaning
In Persian and Urdu poetry, 'nava-sanj' refers to one who measures out melodies or sings, commonly evoking the nightingale or lyrical poets. 'Nava-sanjān' is the Persian animate plural form, referring in this couplet to the free songbirds and singers of the garden. The speaker questions why his sorrowful laments from within a cage should cause any harm or resentment to those rejoicing freely in the rose garden.
Etymology
Persian: 'navā' (voice, tune, melody) + present stem of 'sanjīdan' (to weigh, measure, modulate) + animate plural suffix '-ān'.
Usage
Commonly used in ghazals as an elegant Persian plural to symbolize free artists, poets, or the melodious nightingales of the garden.
Examples
the melody of the garden's singers
the songsters of the dawn