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Definition von ghazel im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- {i} oriental and Islamic poetry composed in repeating rhymes that deals with love
- A kind of Oriental lyric, and usually erotic, poetry, written in recurring rhymes
- or ghazal or gazel In Islamic literature, a lyric poem, generally short and graceful in form and typically dealing with love. The genre developed in late 7th-century Arabia. Ghazels begin with a rhymed couplet whose rhyme is repeated in all subsequent even lines, while the odd lines are unrhymed. The two main types of ghazel are native to the Hejaz (what is now western Saudi Arabia) and Iraq. It reached its greatest refinement in the works of Hafez. American poets such as Adrienne Rich have used variations of the form