Arabic · noun · The Heart & the Body

Kohraam

कोहराम
said koh-raam
Meaning

Loud lamentation and wailing, a widespread outcry of grief and mourning.

Literally: weeping and wailing

Usage & notes

Kohraam is grief made audible across a whole gathering, the collective wail of mourning. In Iqbal's elegiac registers it marks loss felt not by one heart alone but by a community.