Arabic · noun · Time, Fate & the Cosmos
Shabaab
शबाब
said sha-BAAB
also written: shabab, shabaab-e
Meaning
Youth, the bloom and vigour of young age.
Literally: Arabic shabab: youthfulness, the flush of youth.
Usage & notes
Shabaab is youth in flower — the prime of beauty and vigor, the springtime of a life when the face is at its loveliest and the blood at its warmest. The ghazal lingers on it with a tender urgency, for shabaab is beauty on the wing, already shadowed by the knowledge that it fades. To praise the beloved's shabaab is to praise a glory that the very next season will begin to take away.