Meaning
A harvest-heap, a threshing-floor stacked with the gathered, reaped grain.
Usage & notes
The khirman is the great heap of harvest, the accumulated yield of a whole season's toil, vulnerable to a single spark. Iqbal can use it for the wealth of a people's striving and for how swiftly a lifetime's gathering can be set ablaze.
Related words
PERSIAN
Daana
A grain or seed, a single kernel of corn; also the bait scattered for birds.
PERSIAN
Khosha
An ear of grain or a cluster, the head of corn or bunch of grapes.
PERSIAN
Kisht
A sown field, tillage, or the standing crop of a cultivated plot.
ARABIC
Fasl
A season, or the harvest of a season; a span of crop and weather.