Persian · noun · The Heart & the Body
Abru
अब्रू
said ab-ROO
also written: Abroo, abroo, abru-e, abru-kamaan
Meaning
The eyebrow.
Literally: eyebrow
How Iqbal uses it
Abru is the beloved's eyebrow — curved like a bow (kamaan) above the deadly eye, completing the ghazal's archery of beauty. The brow bends, the lashes are arrows, the glance is loosed: a whole imagery of wounding gathers in the curve of an eyebrow. Some poets even liken the arched abru to the niche (mihrab) of a mosque, turning the lover's gaze upon it into a kind of prayer toward beauty.