Arabic · noun · Nature & the Garden

Saba

सबा
said sa-baa
also written: sabaa, zephyr, Sabaa
Meaning

The gentle morning breeze from the east, the soft wind that stirs the garden at dawn.

Literally: the morning / east breeze

Usage & notes

The saba is the morning zephyr — the soft east wind that is the garden's confidant and courier, carrying the lover's message, loosening the bud, and waking the flowers with its scented breath; the most beloved of the gentle winds. Iqbal keeps it as the tender messenger-breeze, the bringer of tidings and stirrer of the dawn garden, even as he often calls for the storm where the saba's gentleness is not enough to rouse the sleeping.