Persian · noun · Nature & the Garden

Kisht

किश्त

said kisht

Meaning

A sown field, tillage, or the standing crop of a cultivated plot.

How Iqbal uses it

Kisht is the field of cultivation, the worked earth where seed becomes harvest, an image of labour and its yield. It frames the husbandry of the soul and the community, where what is planted determines what is reaped.

See it in the verse

Kisht in Iqbal’s couplets

Nahin hai naumeed Iqbal apni kisht-e-veeran se
Zara nam ho to ye mitti badi zarkhez hai saqi

Iqbal is not without hope, even from his barren field — let there be a little moisture, cupbearer, and this soil is wonderfully fertile.

Hope · Aspiration

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

Khirman

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

ARABIC

Fasl

A season, or the harvest of a season; a span of crop and weather.

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