आशिक़ी · عاشقی
Aashiqui is the state of being in love — romance, lovership, the whole experience of loving someone. An aashiq is a lover.
From aashiq (Arabic عاشق, a lover, sharing the root of ishq) with the abstract ending -i. The word names the condition rather than the person.
Aashiq is the lover; ishq is the love; aashiqui is the whole business of being in love — the pursuit, the drama, the state of life it produces.
Because it names a condition rather than a feeling, it suits songs that treat romance as a way of living rather than a single emotion.
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