Word Meaning
शूमी
Shūmī
Meaning
Ill-omen, misfortune, wretchedness, or unluckiness.
Detailed Meaning
In classical poetry, 'shūmī' denotes an inauspicious quality, severe misfortune, or a persistent curse of bad luck. In the given couplet, it appears within the genitive construction 'shūmī-e-tāle'' (the misfortune or ill-omen of one's destiny), serving as the cause for the speaker's helpless entanglement in sin. It conveys a tragic helplessness before one's dark astrological fate.
Etymology
Arabic root 'sh-'-m' (شؤم, ill-omen/misfortune) borrowed into Persian with the abstract noun suffix '-ī'.
Usage
Commonly compounded in ghazals with words for fate like 'tāle'' or 'baḵẖt' to lament an inherently cursed horoscope.
Examples
The misfortune of destiny left him empty-handed.
Freed from grief, yet struck by the ill-omen of fate.