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mugam

mugam is the alternative form of mugham.

Meaning of mugham

Noun

mugham (countable and uncountable, plural mughams)

  1. A musical composition of Azerbaijan in a complex form that blends classical poetry and musical improvisation.
    • But the more complicated issue was that the sections composed for orchestra and chorus, in the style of a 19th-century Italian opera, seemed entirely separate from the mugham sections, long improvisations in which Mr. Qasimov interprets the plight of Majnun using one of the 24 different mughams...2009 March 1, Meline Toumani, “For the Love of Layla”, in New York Times

Forms of mugam

pluralmugams

Questions about mugam

What is mugam the alternative form of?
Mugam is the alternative form of mugham.

Words near mugam in the dictionary

  1. mugaccino
  2. mugaccinos
  3. mugachino
  4. mugachinos
  5. Mugadur
  6. mugam
  7. mugams
  8. Muganda
  9. MUGAs
  10. mugcake
  11. mugcakes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mugam (page history and authors); mugham (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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