gazel

gazel (plural gazels)

1. Dated spelling of gazelle.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “gazel”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “gazel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

gazel (plural gazels)

1. Alternative spelling of ghazal.

• “gazel”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• Glaze, glaze

• gazal

gazel m (plural gazéis)

1. (poetry) ghazal (a poetic form mostly used for love poetry in Middle Eastern, South, and Central Asian poetry)

• “gazel”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “gazel”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French ghazel.

gazel n (plural gazele)

1. (poetry) ghazal (a poetic form mostly used for love poetry in Middle Eastern, South, and Central Asian poetry)

• gazel in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish غزل (gazel), from Arabic غَزَل (ḡazal).

• IPA^(key): [ɡɑˈzel]

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• Hyphenation: ga‧zel

gazel (definite accusative gazeli, plural gazeller)

1. (poetry) ghazal (a poetic form mostly used for love poetry in Middle Eastern, South, and Central Asian poetry)

• kaside
• matla
• makta
• beyit
• beyt-ül-gazel
• natamam gazel
• müselles gazel
• terbi
• tahmis
• yekahenk/yekâhenk gazel
• yekavaz gazel