Word Meaning

लज्ज़त

lazzat

hinoun

Meaning

Pleasure, delight, savour, or exquisite taste.

Detailed Meaning

In classical Urdu poetry, 'lazzat' refers to an intense emotional or sensory pleasure, frequently experienced paradoxically through the pain and cruelty inflicted by the beloved. In this couplet, it appears in the compound 'lazzat-e-bedad', denoting the sublime delight and ecstatic craving the lover feels in enduring tyranny and injustice.

Etymology

Arabic (لَذَّة - ladhdhah), denoting pleasure, delight, or taste.

Usage

In the ghazal tradition, it is frequently bound in izafat compounds to celebrate the paradox of finding sublime pleasure in the suffering of love.

Examples

The delight of heartache

Savouring the pain of longing

Synonyms

लुत्फ़मज़ाआनंदसुरूर

Related Words

लज़ीज़ज़ाइक़ामुतलज़्ज़िज़
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