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Khaana-barbaad

ख़ाना-बर्बाद
said KHaa-na-bar-BAAD
Meaning

One whose house is ruined; a person devastated, with home and fortune destroyed.

Literally: house-ruined

How Iqbal uses it

The lover proudly wears this title, his household wrecked by passion; the ruined home becomes a badge of total surrender to love.

See it in the verse

Khaana-barbaad in Iqbal’s couplets

Jinhen main dhundhta tha aasmanon mein zaminon mein
Wo nikle mere zulmat-khana-e-dil ke makinon mein
Those I searched for across the skies and the earth turned out to dwell in the darkened house of my own heart.
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Related words
PERSIAN

Dar-ba-dar

Wandering from door to door; homeless, destitute, driven from place to place.

PERSIAN

Barbaadi

Devastation and being undone, the scattering ruin of a heart or life thrown to the winds.

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