बलाओं

Meaning

Calamities, misfortunes, tribulations, or disasters.

Detailed Meaning

In Urdu poetics, this plural oblique form denotes severe trials, miseries, and hardships of life or fate. In Mir's verse, it signifies the terrible ordeals that were previously merely heard of in legends, but are now experienced firsthand in the harsh reality of worldly affairs and times.

Etymology

Arabic (بَلاء, balā'), meaning trial, affliction, or calamity.

Usage

Commonly invoked in classical ghazals to depict the inescapable trials of love, the cruelty of the heavens, or existential suffering.

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