ghazal
English
Etymology
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/, Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "foreiɡn" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ɣazal/
Noun
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
a poetic form
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