Arabic · noun · Love & Longing

Halaak

हलाक
said ha-laak
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.