dargah
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Hindustani درگاہ / दरगाह (dargāh), from Classical Persian درگاه (dargāh). See also English eidgah.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
dargah (plural dargahs)
- (Islam, South Asia) A shrine associated with the grave of a Muslim saint or similar religious figure.
- 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 61:
- If not for the fakir's dargah the village might well have melted back into the mud, its inhabitants not being the kind of people to tarry long in one place […].
- 2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, published 2017, page 86:
- But beyond the dargah, and the medieval warren in which it sits, north India's present-day politics can be a good deal less accommodating of religious diversity.
Synonyms[edit]
- maqam (used more often in the Levant)
Translations[edit]
an Islamic shrine
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Indonesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Persian درگاه (dargâh).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
dargah (plural dargah-dargah, first-person possessive dargahku, second-person possessive dargahmu, third-person possessive dargahnya)
References[edit]
- ^ Mohammad Khosh Haikal Azad (2018) “Historical Cultural Linkages between Iran and Southeast Asia: Entered Persian Vocabularies in the Malay Language”, in Journal of Cultural Relation (in Persian), pages 117-144
Further reading[edit]
- “dargah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
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