Persian · noun · Love & Longing

Gul-andaam

गुल-अंदाम

also written: Gulandam

Meaning

One with a body delicate as a flower; a graceful beauty.

Literally: Flower-bodied.

How Iqbal uses it

Gul-andaam likens the beloved's form to a flower — soft, fragrant, fine. It is one of the flowering epithets of beauty alongside simbar and mah-jabeen.

See it in the verse

Gul-andaam in Iqbal’s couplets

Safina-e-barg-e-gul bana lega qafila mor-e-na-tawan ka
Hazar maujon ki ho kashakash magar ye dariya se par hoga

The caravan of feeble ants will make a boat of a rose petal; though a thousand waves clash against it, this boat will cross the river.

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Related words

PERSIAN

Simbar

One with a silver-white bosom or body; a fair beauty.

PERSIAN

Mah-jabeen

One whose forehead is bright as the moon; a radiant beauty.

PERSIAN

Paikar

Form, figure, bodily shape; the beloved's beautiful frame.

PERSIAN

Raanaai

Elegance, graceful loveliness, freshness of beauty.

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