ghazal
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Persian غزل (ğazal), from Arabic غَزَلَ (ḡazala, “to display love to the loved one via speech, to exchange talk of love with the loved one”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡæzæl/
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Noun
ghazal (plural ghazals)
- A poetic form mostly used for love poetry in Middle Eastern, South, and Central Asian poetry.
- 2001, Orhan Pamuk, translated by Erdağ M. Göknar, My Name Is Red:
- Indeed, this is a realm where colors harmoniously recite magnificent ghazals to each other, where time stops, where the Devil never appears.
- 2005, Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown, Vintage, published 2006, page 100:
- A poet could explain him to himself but he was a soldier and had no place to go for ghazals or odes.
Translations
a poetic form
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