Literary Emotions-Running Deck

Question 1

حُزن

Answer 1

Sadness, as in opposite of happiness

Question 2

كَرب

Answer 2

Sadness, as in a breaking open for crevices where seeds of happiness can grow

Question 3

شَجْو

Answer 3

Entangling heartbreak

Question 4

هَمْ

Answer 4

Sadness, as in from worry

Question 5

أَسَّی

Answer 5

Consolement of sadness

Question 6

كَأداء

Answer 6

Insurmountable sadness, and subsequent collapse

Question 7

كَآبَة

Answer 7

Dejection, depression

Question 8

غَمّ

Answer 8

Sadness that clouds out all happiness

Question 9

سُوَيْداء

Answer 9

Deep melancholy

Question 10

الغرام

Answer 10

A love that binds you to the other like a tight knot

Question 11

الْهُيُوْم

Answer 11

Love, as in madness

Question 12

لنجوی

Answer 12

An engulfing, salvation-like love

Question 13

الخلّة

Answer 13

A loving unification of two souls

Question 14

اﻻستكانة

Answer 14

Toxic, submissive love

Question 15

الوُد

Answer 15

The purest, most open love

Question 16

الْكَلَفُ

Answer 16

Love as in “I love you so much it hurts”

Question 17

الوصب

Answer 17

Love where one will die without the other

Question 18

الشوق

Answer 18

Love that grows stronger in absence

Question 19

الْعِشْقُ

Answer 19

Blinding love

Question 20

الشغافة

Answer 20

A love that is part of you, named after the outer layer of the heart

Question 21

الوجد

Answer 21

A love that pollutes the mind with a thousand thoughts, at every waking hour

Question 22

الْهَوَی

Answer 22

Fleeting love, sharing meaning with the wind

Question 23

الصَبوة

Answer 23

A fledgling love, with endless possibility in its infancy