Etymology

Noun

1. A poetic form mostly used for love poetry in Turkish, Urdu, Arabic, and Persian.
   • 2001, Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red, tr. Erdağ M. Göknar:

     Indeed, this is a realm where colors harmoniously recite magnificent ghazals to each other, where time stops, where the Devil never appears.

   • 2005, Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown, Vintage 2006, p. 100:

     A poet could explain him to himself but he was a soldier and had no place to go for ghazals or odes.