Meaning
Destruction and being slain, used for the lover's willing ruin and the heart undone by passion.
Literally: destruction, perdition, being killed
Usage & notes
Halaak is the slaying of the self, which in love's idiom the lover seeks rather than shuns. It names the destruction that is paradoxically a fulfilment, the heart glad to be undone for the beloved.
Related words
PERSIAN
Tabaahi
Ruin and devastation, the wreck of a life or heart laid waste by sorrow or passion.
PERSIAN
Barbaadi
Devastation and being undone, the scattering ruin of a heart or life thrown to the winds.
PERSIAN
Bismil
Wounded and half-slaughtered, used for the writhing, bleeding heart of one struck by love.