# غزل
## Arabic
### Verb

غَزَلَ • (ḡazala) I (non-past يَغْزِلُ (yaḡzilu), verbal noun غَزْل (ḡazl))
* to spin

#### Conjugation
### Verb

غَزِلَ • (ḡazila) I (non-past يَغْزَلُ (yaḡzalu), verbal noun غَزَل (ḡazal))
* to sweet-talk, to flirt, to cajole, to display amorous gestures [with بِ (bi) ‘to’]

#### Conjugation
### Verb

غَزَّلَ • (ḡazzala) II (non-past يُغَزِّلُ (yuḡazzilu), verbal noun تَغْزِيل (taḡzīl)) (rare)
* to pirouette, to whirl

#### Conjugation
### Noun

غَزْل • (ḡazl) m (plural غُزُول (ḡuzūl))
* verbal noun of غَزَلَ (ḡazala) (form I)
* thread, yarn

#### Derived terms

* غَزْلِيّ (ḡazliyy)

### Noun

غَزَل • (ḡazal) m
* compliment, flattery, cajolery
* erotic poetry, love hymns; erotic poetry as a genre, ghazal

#### Descendants

* → Albanian: gazel
* → Azerbaijani: qəzəl
* → Ottoman Turkish: غزل (gazel)
** > Turkish: gazel (inherited)
* → French: ghazel
** → Romanian: gazel
* → Kazakh: ғазел (ğazel)
* → Kyrgyz: казал (kazal)
* → Persian: غزل (ğazal)
** Tajik: ғазал (ġazal)
** → Assamese: গজল (gozol)
** → Bengali: গজল (gojol)
** → Gujarati: ગઝલ (gajhal)
** → Indonesian: gazal
** → Malayalam: ഗസൽ (gasal)
** → Punjabi: ਗ਼ਜ਼ਲ (ġazal)
** → Sylheti: ꠉꠎꠟ (gozol)
** → Telugu: గజల్ (gajal)
** → Urdu: غزل (ġazal)
* → Tatar: газәл (ğazäl)
* → Uyghur: غەزەل (ghezel)
* → Uzbek: gʻazal

### Adjective

غَزِل • (ḡazil) (rare)
* amorous, erotical

#### Declension
### References

* Corriente, Federico (2005) “غزل”, in Diccionario avanzado árabe‎ (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Barcelona: Herder, page 836
* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “غزل”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 211
* Freytag, Georg (1835) “غزل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 273–274
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “غزل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2255–2256
* Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “غزل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 914

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic غَزَل (ḡazal, “a compliment; erotic poetry”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ɣa.zal]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ɣä.zäl]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ɣä.zäl]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ɣä.zäl]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ɣä.zäl̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [qæ.zæl̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʁä.zäl]

### Noun

غزل • (ğazal)
* (poetry) ghazal (form of lyric love poetry)

### Proper noun

غزل • (ğazal)
* a female given name, Ghazal, from Arabic

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian غزل (ğazal)

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /ɣə.zəl/

### Noun

غَزَل • (ġazal) m (Hindi spelling ग़ज़ल)
* ghazal (poetic form)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “غزل”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “غزل”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
* Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “غزل”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.