Definition of "ghazal" [‖Ghaz•al]

• A poetic form mostly used for love poetry in Turkish, Urdu, Arabic, and Persian. (noun)

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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."
• "A ghazal is a song that sounds secular on the face of it."
• "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."