How do you pronounce khyal?
It is a type of Indian music, and comes from the Urdu word for “imagination”.
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Just guessing. Kie (like die with a k) and yal (like in gal with a y)
Kie-yal
I would pronounce it like Kyle.
I would pronouce it Kyal… A hard ‘K’ sound, and then yal with the al like ol in Oliver
Khyal pronunciation from WordReference.com In Khayal the letter kh sounds like the strong German ch or Spanish j . I think it’s very close to pinyin h of hen hao, but maybe a bit stronger, the tongue clearly touching the palate.
Khyal (or Khayal: Hindi: ख़्याल, Urdu: خیال) is the modern genre of classical singing in North India; its name comes from an Arabic word meaning “imagination”. It appeared more recently than dhrupad. Like all Indian classical music, khyal is modal, with a single melodic line and no harmonic parts. The modes are called raga, and each raga is a complicated framework of melodic rules. [from wikipedia]
It is more commonly spelled Khayal. The pronunciation is: “Khayaal = Kha + Yaal”
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It is an hindi word and it refers to a kind of classical music.It’s pronunciation is caa-yal..the stress is on the first syllable.
According to the Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, it’s spelled either ख़याल or ख़्याल and is pronounced /xjal/ or /xijal/. I think that many Hindi speakers would pronounce it /kjal/ or /kijal/.
The word khyal is pronounced as- Khhuhh-yaal.. Try to pronounce it.
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