Ghazal vs. Nazm

Ghazalnoun

A poetic form mostly used for love poetry in Middle Eastern, South, and Central Asian poetry.

Ghazalnoun

A kind of Oriental lyric, and usually erotic, poetry, written in recurring rhymes.

Ghazal

The ghazal (Arabic: غَزَل‎, Bengali: গজল, Urdu: غزَل, Hindi: ग़ज़ल, Persian: غزل‎, Azerbaijani: qəzəl, Turkish: gazel, Uzbek: gʻazal, Gujarati: ગઝલ) is a form of amatory poem or ode, originating in Arabic poetry. A ghazal may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain.The ghazal form is ancient, tracing its origins to 7th-century Arabic poetry.

Nazm

Nazm (Urdu: نظم‎) is a major part of Urdu poetry that is normally written in rhymed verse and also in modern prose-style poems. Nazm is a significant genre of Urdu poetry; the other one is known as ghazal (Urdu: غزل‎).