And thinking of that particular verse reminded me that Meaning 'a few, some' rather than exactly 'four'. The verse provides a fine example of chaar Why would anyone come and light a candle- I'm such a tomb of helplessness!] [why would anyone come to say funeral prayers, why would anyone offer Ko))ii aa ke sham((a jalaa))e kyuu N mai vuh bekasii kaa mazaar huu N Pa))e faati hah ko))ii aa))e kyuu N ko))ii Reflecting on expressions with chaar made me think of thatДЇamously melancholy verse that is generally attributed to Zafar: It, but obviously this is a 'transcreation'. What the hell is 'vortex' doing there? I can't seem to do without

You can get are so inferior to those of the original, the meaning is so attenuated Own version of this ghazal, and especially of this verse, which I knewДЄnd yet- how unsatisfying. I remember how proud I was of coming up with my Ghalib always defeats you, though, when you try translating In any case, both meanings remain fully relevant this is a verse in which the expression chaar mauj has been used with 'double activation' of its possibilities. Here, these elements seem to arise not from the forces of impersonal natureД«ut from the microcosm of the lover's soul, from the 'storm of emotion/joy' It would be clear that exactly 'four' different waves were in fact being enumerated.ДЄnd perhaps we are also meant to think of the four traditional Greek-IslamicД¬osmological elements- earth (rose), air (breeze), water (wine) and fire (sunset). Mental re-imagining of chaar mauj in the first line, since One or the other of these would be the best guess, after one had heard (under mushairah performance conditions) only the first line. Or if not that, in view of the singular verb it would be something like 'a fourfold wave', some kind of special fancy wave.

Would be 'a whirlpool', as Hasrat suggests. For example, Platts defines chaar din as meaning ''Four days', a few days' (p.417)., It can often colloquially mean 'some, a few'. 40), and it seems quite persuasive.Д«ut there's more to be said on the subject of chaar U Thtii hai ) increases the plausibility of his suggestion. Rather than the plural mauje N (along with the singular verb To refer to a whirlpool, and the use of the singular mauj

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