ghazal

What it means

1. communicationsA poetic form mostly used for love poetry in Middle Eastern, South, and Central Asian poetry.

   A poet could explain him to himself but he was a soldier and had no place to go for ghazals or odes.

   2005, Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown, Vintage, published 2006, page 100

   1 more example

   Indeed, this is a realm where colors harmoniously recite magnificent ghazals to each other, where time stops, where the Devil never appears.

   2001, Orhan Pamuk, translated by Erdağ M. Göknar, My Name Is Red

In a sentence

Indeed, this is a realm where colors harmoniously recite magnificent ghazals to each other, where time stops, where the Devil never appears.

2001, Orhan Pamuk, translated by Erdağ M. Göknar, My Name Is Red

Where it comes from

1. Arabicغَزَل
2. Arabicغَزَل
3. Englishghazal

Borrowed from Arabic غَزَل (ḡazal, “to display love to the loved one via speech, to exchange talk of love with the loved one”).