ghazal

See also: Ghazal

English

Alternative forms

• ghasal, ghasel, ghazel

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)

1. 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

• Albanian: gazel (sq) m
• Arabic: غَزَل (ar) m (ḡazal)
• Armenian: գազել (hy) (gazel)
• Assamese: গজল (gozol)
• Azerbaijani: qəzəl
• Bashkir: ғәзәл (ğəzəl)
• Bengali: গজল (bn) (gojol)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加扎勒 (jiāzālè)

• Finnish: gaseeli (fi)
• French: ghazel (fr) m
• Georgian: ღაზალი (ɣazali)
• German: Ghasel (de) n
• Gujarati: ગઝલ f (gajhal)
• Hindi: ग़ज़ल (ġazal), गजल (hi) f (gajal)
• Indonesian: gazal (id)
• Japanese: ガザル (gazaru)
• Kazakh: ғазел (ğazel)
• Kyrgyz: казал (ky) (kazal)
• Malay: ghazal
• Malayalam: ഗസൽ (ml) (gasal)
• Marathi: गजल (gajal)
• Nepali: गजल (ne) (gajal)
• Odia: ଗଜଲ୍ (or) (gajal)
• Ottoman Turkish: غزل (gazel)
• Pashto: غزل (ps) (ğazal)
• Persian: غزل (fa) (ğazal)
• Portuguese: gazel m, gazal m
• Punjabi: ਗ਼ਜ਼ਲ (pa) f (ġazal)
• Russian: газе́ль (ru) f (gazɛ́lʹ)
• Spanish: ghazal m, gazal m
• Swedish: ghasel c, ghazel c, ghazal c
• Sylheti: ꠉꠎꠟ (gozol)
• Tajik: ғазал (ġazal)
• Tatar: газәл (ğazäl)
• Telugu: గజల్ (gajal)
• Turkish: gazel (tr)
• Turkmen: gazal
• Urdu: غزل (ur) (ġazal)
• Uyghur: غەزەل (ghezel)
• Uzbek: gʻazal (uz)

Anagrams

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