I did not know. Just discovered. TARAB is an Arabic word for musically induced ecstacy.
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Meaning of tarab sounds really very heartening, but i have alternate view too. Tarab seems to be a modified form of hindi urdu term taraph ( daayi taraph… baayin taraph) as these sympathetic strings of sitar sarod and sarangi are located by a ‘side’ . These terms were mostly written arabic persian urdu alphabets by the ustads. In arabic there was no substitute for p thus sanskrit aap- water became aab in arabic to give popular word gulaab , a rose. Similarly taraph became tarap and later tarab or tarab ke taar from taraph ke taar.
Meaning of tarab sounds really very heartening, but i have alternate view too. Tarab seems to be a modified form of hindi urdu term taraph ( daayi taraph… baayin taraph) as these sympathetic strings of sitar sarod and sarangi are located by a ‘side’ . These terms were mostly written arabic persian urdu alphabets by the ustads. In arabic there was no substitute for p thus sanskrit aap- water became aab in arabic to give popular word gulaab , a rose. Similarly taraph became tarap and later tarab or tarab ke taar from taraph ke taar.
There is tribe in Africa called Tarab which means resonation . They are folk singers . Bai kidude was one of the famous singers
Some people have also linked the word TARAB to Persian TARUF which means identity or पहचान। Contextually, this interpretation also makes some sense.
Decently agreeable