Word Meaning
सियाह-रोज़
siyāh-roz
hiadjective
Meaning
Unfortunate, wretched, ill-fated, or one enduring days of dark misery.
Detailed Meaning
A Persian compound adjective literally meaning 'having black days', used to describe someone plagued by persistent misfortune or despair. In this couplet, it qualifies 'baḳht' (destiny/fortune) to depict the speaker's conspicuously afflicted and ruined state. It evokes a state of unrelenting melancholy common to tragic romantic condition.
Etymology
Persian compound of 'siyāh' (black, dark) + 'roz' (day).
Usage
Frequently deployed in the ghazal tradition to evoke the archetype of the ill-fated lover burdened by grief and ill fortune.
Examples
The lamentations of a black-fated wanderer.
Enduring the sorrows of a wretched destiny.
Synonyms
बद-क़िस्मतकम-बख़्तबद-नसीब
Related Words
सियाह-बख़्तरोज़-ए-बदसियाही