Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, …
At some point they began reciting poems to each other - lovely chains of Urdu couplets Ramy told him we're called ghazals, and Tang poetry, which Robin frankly didn't love, but which sounded impressive.
— Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang (Page 170)
new vocabulary: ghazals
a lyric poem with a fixed number of verses and a repeated rhyme, typically on the theme of love, and normally set to music