dargah

English

Alternative forms

• durgah, durgaw

Etymology

From Urdu درگاہ (dargāh), from Persian درگاه (dargâh). See also English eidgah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʊəɡɑː/

Noun

dargah (plural dargahs)

1. (Islam, South Asia, India, Pakistan) A shrine associated with the grave of a Muslim saint or similar religious figure.
   • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, p. 61:

     If not for the fakir's dargah the village might well have melted back into the mud, its inhabitants not being the kind of people to tarry long in one place […].

   • 2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin 2017, p. 86:

     But beyond the dargah, and the medieval warren in which it sits, north India's present-day politics can be a good deal less accommodating of religious diversity.

Translations

an Islamic shrine

• Bengali: দরগাহ (dôrgah)
• Hindi: दरगाह (dargāh)
• Indonesian: dargah (id)
• Persian: درگاه (fa) (dargâh)
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• Rajasthani:
• Russian: дарга́х m (dargáx)
• Telugu: దర్గా (dargā)
• Urdu: درگاہ (dargāh)

Synonyms

• maqam (used more often in Palestine and Syria)

Anagrams

• Raghda

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Persian درگاه (dargâh).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdarɡah/
• Hyphenation: dar‧gah
• Rhymes: -ɡah, -ah, -h

Noun

dargah (plural dargah-dargah, first-person possessive dargahku, second-person possessive dargahmu, third-person possessive dargahnya)

1. dargah

   Hypernym: tabut

Further reading

• “dargah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.