qasida
See also: qaṣīda
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Arabic قَصِيدَة (qaṣīda).
Pronunciation
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Noun
qasida (plural qasidas)
- An Arabic or Persian elegiac monorhyme poem, usually having a tripartite structure.
- 1958, Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar:
- He was delighted to hear some music and listened with emotion to the wild qasidas that the old man sang – songs of the Arab canon full of the wild heart-sickness of the desert.
- 2000: María Rosa Menocal, Raymond P. Scheindlin, The Literature of Al-Andalus
- The qasida is a formal multithematic ode addressed to a member of the elite in praise.
- 1958, Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar:
Translations
Arabic or Persian poem
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