Word meaning
Mastani Meaning
मस्तानी · مستانی
Mastani means intoxicated, carefree and joyful — glowing with a happy, tipsy abandon. A 'shaam mastani' is an evening drunk on romance.
Where Mastani comes from
From Persian mast, meaning intoxicated, with a feminine ending. The literal sense is one who is drunk, extended to anyone carefree to the point of abandon.
Mastani vs similar words
Mastani is intoxication as temperament, not state — a person who is simply like that. Nasha is the intoxication itself; mastani is the character it produces.
How Mastani is used in songs
It describes joy that ignores propriety, so it belongs in celebratory and dance songs more than tender ones.
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