फाड़ें

Meaning

Should tear, rip, or rend (subjunctive form of 'to tear').

Detailed Meaning

This is the third-person plural subjunctive or potential form of the verb 'phaadna' (to tear or rend). In this couplet, it refers to tearing, cutting, or consuming yards of cloth, contrasting excessive waste with an utter refusal to make even a small offering. In the wider ghazal idiom, tearing garments evokes the frenzied madness of love or acute despair.

Etymology

From Sanskrit स्फाटयति (sphāṭayati) through Prakrit फाडेइ (phāḍei) into Hindustani फाड़ना / پھاڑنا.

Usage

Often paired in Urdu poetry with 'garebaan' (collar) to symbolize intense passion or poetic madness (junoon).

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