बंदिश

Meaning

Binding, tying together, arrangement, restriction, or poetic composition.

Detailed Meaning

In Persian and Urdu, 'bandish' denotes a tie, restraint, or the tight artistic arrangement of words in a verse. In this couplet, it is used in its physical sense of the binding that holds flowers together in a bouquet. It serves as a metaphor for the unifying bond that kept the speaker's circle of friends from scattering.

Etymology

Persian, from 'bastan' (بستن, to bind, tie) + noun suffix '-ish'.

Usage

While widely used in Urdu poetics to describe well-crafted phrasing, it is used here literally and metaphorically as a unifying tie.

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