Word Meaning
ब-तंगी
ba-tangī
Meaning
In narrowness, due to constriction, or on account of scarcity
Detailed Meaning
A Persian prepositional compound combining the prefix 'ba' (with/by) and 'tangi' (narrowness, shortage, constriction). In this couplet, it functions in an izafat construction ('ba-tangi-e-chashm-e-hasud') meaning 'on account of the narrowness of an envious eye', suggesting that the vast desert proved too cramped for anyone other than Majnun because jealousy made it seem constricted.
Etymology
Persian: preposition 'ba' (with, by, in) + noun 'tangī' (tightness, narrowness, distress), derived from 'tang' (narrow).
Usage
In classical Urdu poetry, 'ba-tangi' often introduces genitive phrases expressing distress, scarcity, or the metaphorical narrowness of vision, mind, or capacity.
Examples
Constricted by sorrow and in distress of heart
Due to the narrowness of space, the crowd could not enter