different between devotional vs qawwali

English

Etymology

devotion +? -al

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??v????n?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??vo???n?l/
• Rhymes: -????n?l

Noun

devotional (plural devotionals)

1. A brief religious service.

2. A text or piece of music or writing to be used for devotion.

Adjective

devotional (comparative more devotional, superlative most devotional)

1. (usually religious) Of or pertaining to devotion or worship.

   She spent much time playing devotional music.

Derived terms

• indevotional

Translations

English

Etymology

From Urdu ???????, Persian ???????, from ?????? (“qawwal”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??w??li/

Noun

qawwali (countable and uncountable, plural qawwalis)

1. (music, uncountable) A style of Muslim devotional music, especially among the Sufis, accompanied by drums and harmonium.
   • 1994, Simon Broughton, World Music: The Rough Guide:

     Jameela Siddiqi listens to qawwali and talks to its performers […].

2. (music, countable) A song in this style.
   • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, p. 223:

     They are singing not a religious qawwali but its secular and lay cousin.

   • 2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin 2017, p. 86:

     Every Thursday, in the dargah's enclosure, musicians in shimmering turquoise kurtas, their fingers bejewelled with bling, perform qawwalis attributed to Khusrau […].

Derived terms

• qawwali-like