Word Meaning
सद-जिगर
sad-jigar
Meaning
A hundred livers; boundless capacity for enduring grief, passion, or torment.
Detailed Meaning
A Persian compound formed from 'sad' (hundred) and 'jigar' (liver), literally meaning 'a hundred livers'. In Urdu-Persian poetics, the liver is regarded as the seat of deep passion, courage, and enduring anguish, so the term denotes an inexhaustible reservoir for sustaining suffering. In this couplet, it represents an immense quantity of combustible suffering that the lover's heart must still produce and offer to the fire of passion.
Etymology
Persian: 'sad' (hundred) + 'jigar' (liver, seat of courage and emotion).
Usage
Employed hyperbolically in classical ghazal to portray an extraordinary stamina for suffering and self-immolation in love.
Examples
To endure such intense parting, one requires a hundred livers.
The fire of yearning consumed a hundred livers in an instant.