English Explanatory Dictionary

mathnawi

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kind of poem written in rhyming couplets, usually with a meter of ten or eleven syllables; found in Persian, Arabic, Turkish, Kurdish and Urdu cultures.

Word forms

mathnawi mathnawis masnavi

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَثْنَوِيّ (maṯnawiyy).

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