Persian · noun · Nation, Faith & Society

Gadaai

गदाई
said ga-daa-ee
also written: Gadai
Meaning

Begging, mendicancy; the life or act of a beggar.

Usage & notes

The practice of begging, often ennobled in Sufi verse as the soul's gadaai at the threshold of the Beloved, a self-emptying that is paradoxically a kind of kingship.