Love in in the air
Valentine's Day is tomorrow. Love is overflowing in millions of minds. Or does it?
Like thanksgiving day (or Pongal in Tamil Nadu), it is a good idea to have a day dedicated to expressing one's love to the loved one. After all many soules do not regularly express their love. This can be a catalyst.
In Tamil there are three words for love as used in English. Kadhal is love between husband/wife or lovers. Paasam is between blood relatives (father/son, mother/son, uncle/nephew so on). And finally anbu which is universal.
What could be the equivalents in English? Paasam could be loosely translated as affection and anbu..... let me think, hmmmm.... "empathy", very liberal translation. Any better words?
In hindi it is pyaar all the way, in German it is liebe that rules and in Chinese you have the ai. I am not an authority to rule out other forms, but to my knowledge among these languages Tamil is the only one with a separate word for universal love.
Like thanksgiving day (or Pongal in Tamil Nadu), it is a good idea to have a day dedicated to expressing one's love to the loved one. After all many soules do not regularly express their love. This can be a catalyst.
In Tamil there are three words for love as used in English. Kadhal is love between husband/wife or lovers. Paasam is between blood relatives (father/son, mother/son, uncle/nephew so on). And finally anbu which is universal.
What could be the equivalents in English? Paasam could be loosely translated as affection and anbu..... let me think, hmmmm.... "empathy", very liberal translation. Any better words?
In hindi it is pyaar all the way, in German it is liebe that rules and in Chinese you have the ai. I am not an authority to rule out other forms, but to my knowledge among these languages Tamil is the only one with a separate word for universal love.
posted by மா சிவகுமார் at Sunday, February 12, 2006
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