Persian · noun · Nature & the Garden

Khosha

ख़ोशा

said kho-sha

Meaning

An ear of grain or a cluster, the head of corn or bunch of grapes.

How Iqbal uses it

The khosha is the gathered cluster of grain, the visible ripening of many seeds into harvest. It figures abundance brought to a head and the fruitful gathering of what was sown.

See it in the verse

Khosha in Iqbal’s couplets

Jis khet se dehqan ko muyassar nahin rozi
Us khet ke har khosha-e-gandum ko jala do

The field that does not yield its farmer even his daily bread — burn every ear of wheat in that field.

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Related words

PERSIAN

Daana

A grain or seed, a single kernel of corn; also the bait scattered for birds.

PERSIAN

Khirman

A harvest-heap, a threshing-floor stacked with the gathered, reaped grain.

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.

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