Word Meaning
मुश्किलें
mushkilen
hinoun (feminine plural)
Meaning
Difficulties, troubles, hardships, or adversities.
Detailed Meaning
Plural of 'mushkil', denoting trials, impediments, and hardships encountered in life or love. In this couplet, it signifies an overwhelming succession of adversities that, having become constant, desensitize the poet and paradoxically cease to cause pain.
Etymology
Arabic 'mushkil' (مشكل), from the root sh-k-l meaning dubious or obscure, borrowed into Persian and Urdu; pluralized here with the Urdu feminine ending '-eñ'.
Usage
In classical Urdu ghazal, 'mushkil' is frequently contrasted with 'aasaan' (easy) to highlight the paradoxes of endurance and suffering.
Examples
Hardships of the path of love.
May all difficulties turn easy.
Synonyms
दुश्वारियाँमुसीबतेंकठिनाइयाँतकलीफ़ें
Related Words
मुश्किलआसानमुश्किल-कुशादुश्वार