different between devotional vs bhajan

English

devotion +? -al

devotional (plural devotionals)

devotional (comparative more devotional, superlative most devotional)

(usually religious) Of or pertaining to devotion or worship.
She spent much time playing devotional music.

Borrowed from Hindi ??? (bhajan).

bhajan (plural bhajans)

(music) A type of Indian devotional song.
- c.1885, A.L.O.E., The Wondrous Sickle:
  "No, there was never a school," said the child; "but the patwaris bibi lets us come to her of a morning, and teaches us bhajans and our letters, and when we learn well she sometimes gives us fruit."
- 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, p. 396:
  Did I detenct Father's deep and rumbling baritone in the chorus which accompanied my wife's first bhajan of the evening?

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