Sanskrit · noun · The Heart & the Body

Sannaata

सन्नाटा
said san-naa-taa
Meaning

A deep, heavy silence or stillness, often the desolate hush that descends after tumult or in a forsaken heart.

Literally: total absence of sound, stillness

Usage & notes

Sannaata is silence with weight, the dread quiet of a desolate place or a numbed heart. Iqbal sets such lifeless hush against the living clamour he prizes, treating dead stillness as something to be broken.