Persian · noun · The Heart & the Body

Be-hosi

बेहोशी
said be-ho-shee
also written: Behoshi
Meaning

Loss of senses and swooning unconsciousness, the heart so overcome by feeling that awareness fails.

Literally: senselessness, unconsciousness

Usage & notes

Be-hosi is the swoon of one overwhelmed, senses lost in the grip of rapture or grief. In mystic verse it shades into the self-loss of be-khudi, the heart so taken by the Beloved that ordinary consciousness dissolves.