joy

In classical Arabic, the term is used burūz to refer to the detention that the military carried out before an expedition. This word passed into Hispanic Arabic as alburúz and then to our language What joy.

The first meaning mentioned by the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) points out that joy is the jubilation, satisfaction or enjoyment of great intensity. For example: "The arrival of the American player caused joy among the team's supporters", "The children laughed with joy throughout the afternoon", "The singer announced with joy that next month she will begin a world tour".

The exhilaration is usually produced by a Pleasant surprise, a good news wave realization of something expected. Take the case of the Argentine basketball team (basketball), when in 2004 won the gold medal in the Athens olympic games. That was the first Olympic medal in history for the team and it was achieved after eliminating the big favorite (USA) in the semifinals. That is why the success was celebrated with joy by all the players and also by the Argentines in general.

Other situations that can lead a person to experience a real sense of joy are from having been able to finish school to finding a job to marrying the person they love or having a child. And those would also be joined by receiving a yes to the marriage request or having managed to win a large sum of money by participating in a contest.

In Spain there is a very popular expression that precisely makes use of the term that we are addressing. We are referring to "What a joy, what a joy!" It is usually used to be able to clearly express the happiness that one feels for some relevant event or a triumph achieved.

However, his curiosity is that it is known, above all, for being used in the tombola of fairs and similar events. Specifically, in them, years ago it was very common to hear the owners of those attracting customers through the megaphone with the phrase: "What joy, what joy! Another pilot dog." And it is that this was a stuffed animal with which many people were awarded who decided to place their bet on the current raffle.

The RAE also alludes to merriment as a disorder or a mess of extraordinary characteristics: "Since the fall of the regime, the nation has lived in constant joy that no one can control", "The irruption of an armed man on the stage caused joy in the crowd", "The joy in the office was great when the boss announced that he was going to resign because he did not agree with the president of the company".

Likewise, we cannot ignore that there are works that use the word that we are addressing in their titles. This would be the case, for example, of "Book of the first joy that wine produces about the finery of the Kingdom of Almería". Its authorship falls on El Mugrib by Ibn Said ad-Magribi.