This article is a philological discourse on the meanings of "ghazal"—a denotation of a sub-genre of qasidah in the Arabic poetic tradition. After a detailed analysis of the various meanings of the Arabic triliteral root word (arising out of gh-z-l) and its relation to the word and the concept of ghazal, it provides an Urdu translation of the concerened sections on ghazal in two authentic works on Arabic lughah.