ghazel

noun

ghaz·​el

variants or ghazal or less commonly gazel or gasal or ghasel

ˈgazəl

plural -s

: an Arabic lyric poem that begins with a rhymed couplet whose rhyme is repeated in all even lines and that is especially common in Persian literature

Word History

Etymology

Arabic ghazal

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