Word Meaning
मज़ारों
mazāroñ
Meaning
Tombs, shrines, or graves (oblique plural form).
Detailed Meaning
'Mazāroñ' is the oblique plural form of 'mazār', meaning graves, shrines, or places of burial and visitation. In classical Urdu poetry, walking among graves symbolizes confronting the impermanence of worldly glory, beauty, and life. In this couplet, it serves as an emblem of mortality, showing how countless splendid worlds and human lives have all dissolved into dust.
Etymology
Derived from the Arabic noun of place 'mazār' (مزار), from the triconsonantal root z-w-r (ز و ر) meaning 'to visit'; hence literally 'a place of visitation' or tomb.
Usage
In ghazal poetics, 'mazār' commonly functions as a site of contemplation ('ibrat) on the brevity of existence or as the desolate resting place of the lover.
Examples
The lone lamp burns at the quiet graves.
Wandering past the silent graves of past lovers.