Urdu · noun · Nature & the Garden
Jhakkar
झक्कड़
said JHAK-kar
also written: jhakar, jhakhar, gale, tempest
Meaning
A violent gust, squall, or windstorm.
Literally: violent gale, tempest
Usage & notes
The jhakkar is a fierce gale or windstorm in the Hindavi register — a battering, gusty tempest that bends and breaks, more rustic and violent in flavour than the loftier toofan. It belongs to the imagery of wind as force and ordeal. Iqbal's storm-vocabulary uses such gales for the buffeting that proves and toughens, the wild wind against which only the deep-rooted self holds firm.