ghazal
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
Noun[edit]
ghazal (plural ghazals)
- A poetic form mostly used for love poetry in Middle Eastern, South, and Central Asian poetry.
- 2001, Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red, tr. Erdağ M. Göknar:
- 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 2006, p. 100:
- A poet could explain him to himself but he was a soldier and had no place to go for ghazals or odes.
- 2001, Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red, tr. Erdağ M. Göknar:
Translations[edit]
a poetic form
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