Word Meaning
सुख़न-आग़ुश्ता-ब-ख़ूँ
sukhan-āghushta-ba-khūn
Meaning
Words soaked or steeped in blood; poignant, anguished speech.
Detailed Meaning
A Persianate compound metaphor designating speech or poetry saturated with anguish, suffering, and deep internal agony. In the couplet, the poet declines to move his lips because beneath his tongue lie hundreds of unspoken words drowning in his own heart's blood. It evokes an extreme intensity of suppressed grief where any utterance would literally bleed.
Etymology
Persian compound consisting of 'sukhan' (word/speech) + 'āghushta' (soaked/steeped) + 'ba' (with/in) + 'khūn' (blood).
Usage
Employed in classical Urdu poetry to depict intense emotional torment where silent suffering is more expressive than outward weeping.
Examples
every couplet of his was sukhan-āghushta-ba-khūn
the heart kept hiding that sukhan-āghushta-ba-khūn under the tongue