बे-हिस

Meaning

Numb, unfeeling, insensate, devoid of sensation or emotion.

Detailed Meaning

Literally meaning lacking sense or perception, it conveys profound physical or emotional numbness. In this couplet, overwhelming sorrow has completely desensitized the speaker, rendering him indifferent even to death or decapitation. It captures a paradoxical state where the intensity of suffering extinguishes the capacity to feel pain.

Etymology

Persian privative prefix 'be-' (without) + Arabic 'hiss' (perception, feeling, sense).

Usage

In classical Urdu ghazal, it frequently describes the poet-lover who has become entirely indifferent to trauma after enduring limitless suffering.

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