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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

GHAZAL; GHAZEL

GHAZAL; GHAZEL Ghaz "al, Ghaz "el, n. [Ar. ghazal. ]

Defn: A kind of Oriental lyric, and usually erotic, poetry, written in recurring rhymes.

New American Oxford Dictionary

ghazal

gha zal |ˈgəzəl ˈɡəzəl | ▶noun (in Middle Eastern and Indian literature and music ) a lyric poem with a fixed number of verses and a repeated rhyme, typically on the theme of love, and normally set to music. ORIGIN via Persian from Arabic ġazal.

Oxford Dictionary

ghazal

ghazal |ˈgʌʒʌl | ▶noun (in Middle Eastern and Indian literature and music ) a lyric poem with a fixed number of verses and a repeated rhyme, typically on the theme of love, and normally set to music. ORIGIN via Persian from Arabic ġazal.