Meaning
Worship, adoration; the lover's reverent devotion.
Usage & notes
Parastish is adoration carried to the pitch of worship. In the love-poem it is the lover's idolatry of the beloved; in the religious register it slides toward the worship due to God.
Related words
PERSIAN
Parastaar
A worshipper, adorer, devotee of the beloved.
ARABIC
Sanam
Beloved, sweetheart; literally an idol, the beloved worshipped like one.
PERSIAN
But
Idol; a figure of the beloved so beautiful as to be worshipped, and a symbol of beauty in the ghazal.
PERSIAN
Niyaaz
Humble entreaty, devotion, submissive longing of the lover.