Persian · noun · Poetry, Speech & Art

Marsiya-khwaan

मर्सिया-ख़्वाँ
said mar-si-ya-KHWAAN
Meaning

A reciter of elegies; one who chants the marsiya of mourning, especially for Karbala.

Literally: elegy-reciter

How Iqbal uses it

The voice of grief at the mourning assembly; broadly, any singer of laments for the beloved dead or for vanished glory.