Word Meaning
मेहर-वश
mehr-wash
Meaning
Sun-faced, radiant like the sun, an exceedingly beautiful beloved.
Detailed Meaning
A compound epithet meaning 'sun-faced' or 'radiant like the sun'. In this couplet, it characterizes the dazzling beloved whose reflective brilliance is so intense that the grain of the mirror flutters like dust motes in a shaft of sunlight. It evokes blinding, supreme celestial radiance.
Etymology
Persian compound of 'mehr' (sun) and the adjectival suffix '-vash' (resembling, like).
Usage
Widely used in classical Persian and Urdu ghazal to denote a beloved whose beauty possesses the brilliance of the sun, often paired with motifs of mirrors and light.
Examples
The arrival of the sun-faced beauty illuminated the entire assembly.
Every mirror trembled before the radiance of that sun-faced beloved.