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.
See it in the verse