हैरत-फ़रोश

Meaning

A seller or displayer of wonder and astonishment.

Detailed Meaning

Literally meaning a merchant of bewilderment, this compound refers to someone or something that displays, generates, or trades in sheer amazement. In the cited couplet, restlessness (iztirar) is personified as a vendor offering hundreds of watchful, astonished gazes, reflecting inner turmoil transformed into intense visual bewilderment.

Etymology

Arabic 'ḥayrah' (astonishment, perplexity) + Persian 'farōsh' (agent noun from 'furūkhtan', to sell).

Usage

In classical Persian and Urdu poetry, compounding abstract qualities with the agentive suffix '-farosh' creates vivid personifications of emotional states.

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