Meaning of qasida | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An Arabic or Persian elegiac monorhyme poem, usually having a tripartite structure.
2. Alternative spelling of qasida.
   alt-of, alternative
3. An Urdu panegyric poem

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“The qasida is a formal multithematic ode addressed to a member of the elite in praise.”

“Even when the poetry of such poems does not employ the qaṣīda’s tripartite structure, [...]”

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