tarab
Language: Arabic · [tˤɑ.rab] · Pronunciation: TA-rab
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Meaning
the state music can put you in when it takes you over completely
The story
Lane's lexicon gives the root as a heart made unsteady, by joy or grief alike, and modern Arabic keeps it for what music does. Umm Kulthum sang live on the radio on the first Thursday of the month for decades, stretching one song past an hour while the hall called for the line again.
The four rounds
- Which language is it from?
- Arabic
- Who says it most often?
- A crowd calling for one more repeat
- Where would you hear it?
- A Cairo wedding, one note held
- What does it mean?
- Being carried off by the music itself
How it went
Harder than most words so far.
Round one, language, was where most points went.
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