ब-सद-रंग

Meaning

In a hundred hues; with diverse splendors or manifold varieties.

Detailed Meaning

A Persian adverbial phrase literally meaning 'with a hundred colors'. In classical Urdu poetry, it evokes an overwhelming abundance of beauty, variety, and festive flourishing. In this couplet, it describes the beloved blossoming perpetually in the multifaceted, glorious splendor of an entire garden.

Etymology

Persian: 'ba' (with, by) + 'sad' (hundred) + 'rang' (color, shade, manner).

Usage

Commonly used in ghazal poetry as a hyperbolic ornament to emphasize endless diversity of splendor, emotion, or sorrow.

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