Roohani
/ruːˈhɑːni/noun
Relating to the spirit, spirituality, or the soul.
Did you know?In Arabic and Persian Sufi vocabulary, rūḥ can mean spirit, soul, breath, or wind—linking spiritual life with the unseen movement of air.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Semitic
Proto-Semitic
*rūḥ-
“Breath, wind, or spirit; a reconstructed ancient Semitic root”
Classical Arabic
Arabic
rūḥ
“Spirit, soul, breath, or wind”
Classical Arabic
Arabic
rūḥānī
“Spiritual or belonging to the spirit”
Medieval Persian
Persian
rūḥānī
“Spiritual, religious, or mystical”
Modern Urdu
Urdu
rūḥānī / roohani
“Spiritual, soulful, or pertaining to inner religious life”
Modern English
English
roohani
“A loanword used chiefly in South Asian, religious, and spiritual contexts to mean spiritual”