Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A poetic form of Persian origin, consisting of five or more syntactically complete couplets linked by rhyme and the repetition of a closing word or phrase.
- noun A poem in this form.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of Oriental lyric, and usually erotic, poetry, written in recurring rhymes.
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- noun A poetic form mostly used for love poetry in Turkish, Urdu, Arabic, and Persian.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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They are, of course, about both, but the nature of the ghazal is to be about several things at once: the beloved and the state and god; the seasons, age, death and eternity, intoxication and meditation, and, of course, language.
Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker Anis Shivani 2010
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They are, of course, about both, but the nature of the ghazal is to be about several things at once: the beloved and the state and god; the seasons, age, death and eternity, intoxication and meditation, and, of course, language.
Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker Anis Shivani 2010
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They are, of course, about both, but the nature of the ghazal is to be about several things at once: the beloved and the state and god; the seasons, age, death and eternity, intoxication and meditation, and, of course, language.
Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker Anis Shivani 2010
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They are, of course, about both, but the nature of the ghazal is to be about several things at once: the beloved and the state and god; the seasons, age, death and eternity, intoxication and meditation, and, of course, language.
Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker Anis Shivani 2010
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They are, of course, about both, but the nature of the ghazal is to be about several things at once: the beloved and the state and god; the seasons, age, death and eternity, intoxication and meditation, and, of course, language.
Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker Anis Shivani 2010
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A ghazal is a song that sounds secular on the face of it.
The Qawwals and Qawwali « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008
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In fact, in India and Pakistan, ghazal is also a separate, distinct musical genre in which many of the same songs are performed in a different musical style, and in a secular context.
The Qawwals and Qawwali « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008
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A ghazal is traditionally a love poem, but modern writers use the form and not the theme - the form being that it consists of several two-line stanzas, and certain words are repeated at the end of every stanza.
Poetry: Moments of a Mosque fantasyecho 2007
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For his NSO-commissioned Concerto for Four Soloists, which had its world premiere Thursday, he assembled two other big names in Indian music: Shankar Mahadevan, much feted for his work as a film composer and singer; and Hariharan, another film singer who specializes in the traditional sung poetic form called ghazal.
NSO review: Tabla meets West as 'India' concert strikes a crossover convergence 2011
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Perhaps the most popular form of poetry in Pakistan is the ghazal, which is made up of five or more units of two lines each and often sung.
mollusque commented on the word ghazal
He felt as he had at seventeen, when, as a Dayton Chaminade senior, he'd set himself the task of writing one Persian-style ghazal a day. Back then, he knew he would become a poet. Now he filled with this sense of awful fraudulence, new lyric possibilities.
--Richard Powers, 2007, The Echo Maker, p. 315
November 7, 2008
fbharjo commented on the word ghazal
from semitic root - gzl - to spin
April 14, 2012
kmalhotra612 commented on the word ghazal
Ghazal is an Arabic word, which is pronounced as ‘GHUZZLE’, meaning ‘talking to women’. It was developed in 10th century AD in Persia from ‘qasida’, the Arabic verse form. In the 12th century, it was brought up by Moghul invasion in India. This tradition is being practiced in India (Hindi and Urdu), Iran (Farsi) and Pakistan (Urdu). In both, Pakistan and India, the tradition of Ghazal has achieved popularity commercially as well as even set to music too in movies as well as in recordings.
http://www.yoalfaaz.com/blog/73
March 5, 2016
qms commented on the word ghazal
A poet I once knew named Basil
Tried hard to impress and to dazzle.
For verses erotic
He liked the exotic
And spurned the dull sonnet for ghazal.
October 30, 2018