Word Meaning
बयानीयाँ
bayāniyāñ
Meaning
Narrations, accounts, descriptions, or recountings of stories or events.
Detailed Meaning
In classical Urdu poetry, 'bayāniyāñ' refers to plural recountings, narratives, or descriptions of personal experiences and emotions. In this couplet, it functions within the compound notion of 'musībat-bayāniyāñ' (the narrations of sufferings), reflecting the endless, sleepless accounts of agony shared like nighttime tales.
Etymology
From Arabic 'bayān' (clarity, exposition) with Persian/Urdu suffix '-ī' and Urdu feminine plural ending '-āñ'.
Usage
Commonly forms part of expressive compound phrases (like 'musībat-bayānī' or 'dard-bayānī') in ghazals to evoke sorrowful narrative confessions.
Examples
The accounts of broken hearts left everyone sleepless.
Do not ask about the recountings of grief.