Word Meaning
सादगी-आमोज़
saadgii-aamoz
Meaning
Teaching or imparting simplicity; making one artless or indifferent.
Detailed Meaning
A Persian compound adjective meaning that which teaches, imparts, or instills simplicity, innocence, or artlessness. In Ghalib's couplet, it describes the fear that the relentless grief of lovers might instruct the beloved idols in cold indifference or lack of adornment. It conveys the paradoxical idea of beauty becoming plain or unfeeling through the lover's suffering.
Etymology
Persian compound of 'sādagī' (simplicity/artlessness) + 'āmoz' (present stem of āmūkhtan, to teach/learn).
Usage
In classical ghazal poetry, the suffix '-āmoz' is frequently compounded with abstract nouns to denote teaching or imparting an emotional state or habit.
Examples
A sorrow so profound that it became simplicity-imparting to the restless heart.
Her quiet demeanor was simplicity-imparting to the vain world.