पा-बरहना

Meaning

Barefoot; with unshod feet, symbolizing desperation, sorrow, or frenzied madness.

Detailed Meaning

Literally meaning barefoot, this Persian compound illustrates a lover reduced to sheer helplessness, frenzy, or madness (junūn). In this couplet, it describes the physical desolation of the lover running heedlessly in grief with feet bare, dust in hair, and chest torn apart. It denotes a total loss of worldly decorum under the sway of passionate suffering.

Etymology

Persian compound of pā (foot) and barahna (naked, bare).

Usage

In classical ghazal, traversing thorny wildernesses barefoot is a conventional motif signifying intense passionate abandonment and mad devotion.

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