Persian · noun phrase, masculine · The Tavern & the Cup

Tah-e-jaam

तह-ए-जाम

said tah-e-jaam

also written: Tah-e-jam

Meaning

The bottom of the cup; the last dregs left in the goblet, often a figure for the end of the feast or the lover's final share.

Literally: the bottom of the cup

How Iqbal uses it

The depths of the cup hold the lees that the devoted lover does not spurn. In poetic usage tah-e-jaam evokes both the close of the gathering and the humble portion that mysticism prizes.

See it in the verse

Tah-e-jaam in Iqbal’s couplets

Utha na sheesha-garaan-e-firang ke ehsaan
Safaal-e-Hind se mina-o-jaam paida kar

Do not be indebted to the glassmakers of the foreign land — fashion your goblet and cup from the clay of your own soil.

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Related words

PERSIAN

Durd

The dregs or lees at the bottom of the wine-cup; in mystic humility, the very draught the lowly lover treasures.

ARABIC

Saaf

Clear, pure, clarified; of wine, the limpid draught drawn off from the dregs, the pure top of the cup (contrasted with durd, the lees).

PERSIAN

Jaam

A wine-cup or goblet; the vessel that holds the wine of divine love.

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