I've been listening to a lot of Bollywood music lately, and I've been hearing a specific word sung so frequently, I figured it must be a pretty important one in the Hindi language. The word is ishq. I never got around to looking it up until today, when I recalled that the Turkish word aşk means love. And I now know that ishq does, too. Duh. Not just an important word, but the ultimate word.
Being a bit of an etymology nerd, I was delighted to learn this from Wikipedia:
"The word is derived from ‘ashiqah, a vine: the common belief is that when love takes its root in the heart of a lover, everything other than God is effaced."
I like that.
I also like that this word has its own wiki page, which should not be surprising. But, still, not every word in every language does. Just the special ones.
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