different between qawwali vs ghazal

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

English

Etymology

Persian ???? (?azal), from Arabic ??????? (?azala, “to display love to the loved one via speech, to exchange talk of love with the loved one”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æzæl/

Noun

ghazal (plural ghazals)

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

Translations

Anagrams

• haglaz