Word Meaning
यक-क़लम-अंगेज़
yak-qalam-angez
Meaning
Instigating or stirring up completely, all at once.
Detailed Meaning
This compound adjective describes something that stirs up passion, turmoil, or effect entirely and in one stroke. In the provided couplet, it qualifies the beloved's coquettish glance ('ghamza'), depicting it as wholly provocative and utterly ruinous without delay. It blends the Persian phrase 'yak-qalam' (entirely, in one stroke) with the active participle suffix '-angez' (exciting or instigating).
Etymology
Persian compound formed from 'yak' (one), 'qalam' (pen/cut/stroke), and the agentive suffix '-angīz' (from angīkhtan, to rouse or incite).
Usage
Employed in classical Urdu poetry to intensify the absolute and instantaneous emotional devastation caused by the beloved.
Examples
a glance that stirs unrest in a single stroke
her beauty's total, instantaneous instigation