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qawwal

qawwal noun: a person who performs qawwali music or song.

qawwal: a person who performs qawwali music or song
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Noun

qawwal (plural qawwals)

  1. A person who performs qawwali music or song.
    • 2000: Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, et al, eds, World Music: The Rough Guide, volume two of the new edition
      What does It mean to be a qawwal?

qawwal meaning in Hindi

qawwal in Hindi

qawwal
क़व्वाल qavvāl

Forms of qawwal

pluralqawwals

Origin of qawwal

Borrowed from Arabic قَوَّال (qawwāl).

Questions about qawwal

What does qawwal mean?
Qawwal means a person who performs qawwali music or song.
What is qawwal in Hindi?
Qawwal in Hindi is क़व्वाल (qavvāl). See Qawwal meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is qawwal?
Qawwal is a noun.
What is the plural of qawwal?
The plural of qawwal is qawwals.

Words near qawwal in the dictionary

  1. qawal
  2. qawali
  3. qawalis
  4. qawals
  5. Qawasqar
  6. qawwal
  7. qawwali
  8. qawwali-like
  9. qawwalis
  10. qawwals
  11. qaygiq

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Adapted from Wiktionary: qawwal (page history and authors); क़व्वाल (Hindi) (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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