Word Meaning
मजरूह
majrooh
Meaning
Wounded, injured, or afflicted with pain.
Detailed Meaning
In classical Urdu poetics, 'majrooh' describes someone or something wounded, bruised, or emotionally afflicted. In this couplet, it qualifies 'seena' (breast or heart) to form the Persian genitive construction 'seena-e-majrooh' (the wounded chest), upon which salt is to be rubbed to relish acute agony. It represents the poet's paradoxical delight in the intensity of amorous suffering.
Etymology
Arabic (مجروح / majrūḥ), passive participle from the triconsonantal root j-r-ḥ (جرح), meaning 'to wound' or 'to lacerate'.
Usage
Commonly invoked in ghazals to characterize the lover's lacerated heart or spirit, often paired with salt or arrows to heighten tragic pathos.
Examples
Do not ask of the state of the wounded heart
To rub salt into the wounded breast