Persian · noun · Nature & the Garden
Saro
सर्व
said SAR-o
also written: Sarv, sarw, sarv-e, sarv-e-rawaan
Meaning
The cypress tree.
Literally: cypress (the beloved's stature)
How Iqbal uses it
Sarv is the cypress — the classic image for the beloved's tall, slender, upright figure, the graceful stature (qaamat) that sways like the tree in a garden breeze. The walking beloved is a sarv-e-rawaan, a moving cypress, beauty in elegant motion. The cypress also bears a quiet symbolism of freedom and uprightness: the tree that, unlike fruit-bearers, bends to no one, an emblem of the noble and self-possessed.