ghazal
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 19
- Words With Friends
- 20
- Letters
- 6
Definition of ghazal
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A poetic form mostly used for love poetry in Middle Eastern, South, and Central Asian poetry.
“Indeed, this is a realm where colors harmoniously recite magnificent ghazals to each other, where time stops, where the Devil never appears.”
“A poet could explain him to himself but he was a soldier and had no place to go for ghazals or odes.”
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noun
-
A poetic form mostly used for love poetry in Middle Eastern, South, and Central Asian poetry.
“Indeed, this is a realm where colors harmoniously recite magnificent ghazals to each other, where time stops, where the Devil never appears.”
“A poet could explain him to himself but he was a soldier and had no place to go for ghazals or odes.”
name
- A surname from Arabic.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic غَزَل (ḡazal, “to display love to the loved one via speech, to exchange talk of love with the loved one”).
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