सियह-तालई

Meaning

Ill-fatedness, misfortune, or having an unlucky destiny.

Detailed Meaning

The compound refers to misfortune or having a dark, cursed star of destiny. In this couplet, it represents the speaker's undeniable bad luck, which leads to an ongoing ordeal or confrontation with the dark night of sorrow.

Etymology

Persian 'siyah' (black, dark) combined with Arabic 'tāli' (rising star/ascendant/fortune) plus the Persian abstract noun suffix '-ī'.

Usage

A common motif in classical Urdu ghazal where the lover personifies his fate as dark to justify eternal grief and unrequited love.

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