Word Meaning
सद-हज़ार
sad-hazār
hiadjective
Meaning
A hundred thousand; countless, innumerable.
Detailed Meaning
Literally denoting a hundred thousand, 'sad-hazar' is traditionally employed in Persian and Urdu poetry as an emphatic hyperbole for an infinite or vast quantity. In the couplet, it underscores the boundless cruelty of Love, which arrives bearing a hundred thousand salt-cellars to rub salt into the speaker's lacerated heart. The word heightens the dramatic scale of torment and poetic excess.
Etymology
Persian compound of 'sad' (hundred) and 'hazār' (thousand).
Usage
Commonly used in ghazals as an exaggerative quantifier to express overwhelming quantities of grief, wounds, or yearnings.
Examples
A hundred thousand laments echoed through the silent night.
Armed with a hundred thousand excuses to turn away.
Synonyms
बेशुमारलातादादअनगिनत
Related Words
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