dargah

• durgah, durgaw

From Hindustani درگاہ / दरगाह (dargāh), from Classical Persian درگاه (dargāh). See also English eidgah.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɜː(ɹ)ɡɑː/, /ˈdɑː(ɹ)ɡɑː/

dargah (plural dargahs)

1. (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.

• maqam (used more often in the Levant)

• Raghda

From Persian درگاه (dargâh).[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈdarɡah/
• Hyphenation: dar‧gah
• Rhymes: -ɡah, -ah, -h

dargah (plural dargah-dargah, first-person possessive dargahku, second-person possessive dargahmu, third-person possessive dargahnya)

1. dargah

   Hypernym: tabut

• “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.