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Devotional vs Bhajan - What's the difference?

devotional | bhajan |

As nouns the difference between devotional and bhajan

is that devotional is a piece of music or writing about or pertaining to devotion while bhajan is (music) a type of indian devotional song.

As an adjective devotional

is (usually|religious) of or pertaining to devotion or worship.

devotional

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A piece of music or writing about or pertaining to devotion.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (usually, religious) Of or pertaining to devotion or worship.
    • She spent much time playing devotional music.

    Derived terms

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    bhajan

    English

    (wikipedia bhajan)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (music) A type of Indian devotional song.
  • *c.1885 , A.L.O.E., The Wondrous Sickle :
  • *:"No, there was never a school," said the child; "but the patwaris bibi lets us come to her of a morning, and teaches us bhajans and our letters, and when we learn well she sometimes gives us fruit."
  • *1997 , (Kiran Nagarkar), Cuckold , HarperCollins 2013, p. 396:
  • *:Did I detenct Father's deep and rumbling baritone in the chorus which accompanied my wife's first bhajan of the evening?