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'''Rauza''', '''Rouza''', '''Roza''' ({{lang-ur|{{nq|روضة}}}}, {{lang-bn|রৌজা}}, {{lang-hi|रौज़ा}}) is a [[Perso-Arabic]] term used in [[Middle East]] and [[Indian subcontinent]] which means shrine or tomb.<ref>{{cite book|last=Steingass|first=Francis Joseph|title=A comprehensive Persian-English dictionary including the Arabic words and phrases to be met with in Persian literature; being Johnson and Richardson's Persian, Arabic and English dictionary ; revised, enlarged and entirely reconstructed|date=1992|publisher=Asian Educational Services|location=New Delhi|isbn=9788120606708|page=595|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=knA9NptP7xsC&q=Rauza+meaning&pg=PA595|edition=3. Repr.|access-date=9 February 2014}}</ref><ref name="tillotson14">{{cite book|last=Tillotson|first=Giles|title=Taj Mahal|date=2008|publisher=Harvard University Press|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|isbn=9780674063655|page=14|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YHEHNSTNnRQC&q=Rauza+meaning&pg=PA14|access-date=9 February 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Becker|first=James|title=The messiah secret|date=2010|publisher=Bantam|location=London|isbn=9781407055800|page=474|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cbu9mNM8nDMC&q=Rauza+meaning&pg=PA474|access-date=9 February 2014}}</ref> It is also known as [[Mazar (mausoleum)|mazār]], ''[[maqbara]]'' or ''[[dargah]]''.<ref>{{cite book|last=D'Rozario|first=P. S.|title=A Dictionary of the Principal Languages Spoken in the Bengal Presidency: Viz. English, Bángálí, and Hindústání. In the Roman Character|date=1837|publisher=G. Woollaston|page=316|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jQMVAAAAYAAJ&q=Rauza+meaning&pg=PA316|access-date=9 February 2014}}</ref><br />
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The word ''rauza'' is derived through Persian from the [[Arabic]] ''rawdah'' ({{lang|ar|روضة}} ''rawḍah'') meaning garden, but extended to tomb surrounded by garden as at [[Agra]] and [[Aurangabad, Maharashtra|Aurangabad]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Ward|first=Philip|title=Gujarat, Daman, Diu : a travel guide|date=1998|publisher=Orient Longman Ltd.|location=New Delhi|isbn=9788125013839|page=31|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P7EHTBl_pyQC&q=Rauza+meaning&pg=PA31|access-date=9 February 2014}}</ref> Abdul Hamid Lahauri, the author of the [[Badshahnama]], the official history of [[Shah Jahan]]'s reign, calls [[Taj Mahal]] ''rauza-i munawwara'' ([[Perso-Arabic]]: {{lang|fa|{{nq|روضه منواره}}}} ''rawdah-i munawwarah''), meaning the illumined or illustrious tomb in a garden.<ref name="tillotson14"/><br />
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