Paimaana
A wine-cup or goblet; also a measure, hence the measure of one's life or capacity.
Literally: cup, goblet
The jaam is the cup that holds the wine — and so the vessel of the heart that receives divine love, or the moment of grace handed to the lover by the saqi. To be given the jaam is to be admitted to the intoxication; to wait for it is the seeker's longing. Iqbal lets the cup stand for the receptive self made ready to hold the fire of love, and famously fuses it with the legend of the all-seeing jaam-e-jam.
Paimaana in Iqbal’s couplets
Sifaal-e-Hind se meena o jaam paida kar
Safaal-e-Hind se mina-o-jaam paida kar
Jaam
A goblet or wine-cup; the fabled cup of Jamshed that showed the whole world within it.
Saaghar
A large wine-cup or bowl; emblem of the heart brimming with love's intoxication.
Mai
Wine; emblem of divine love, ecstasy, and the annihilation of the ego.
Saaqi
The cup-bearer who pours the wine; in mystic verse the giver of spiritual ecstasy, and the beloved.
Jaam-e-jam
The legendary cup of Jamshed in which the whole world could be seen; a mirror of all things.