QASIDA

Meaning of QASIDA in English

noun

or ka·si·da kəˈsēdə

( plural qasida or kasida )

Etymology: Arabic qaṣīdah

: a laudatory, elegiac, or satiric poem in Arabic, Persian, or any of various related Oriental literatures

Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012

QASIDA — /keuh see"deuh/ , n. , pl. qasida, qasidas . Pros. an Arabic poem, usually in monorhyme, that may be satirical, …
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QASIDA — plural qasida, also spelled kasida, Arabic qasidah poetic form developed in pre-Islamic Arabia and perpetuated throughout Islamic literary history into …
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KASIDA — variant of qasida
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BAKI — born 1526, Constantinople [now Istanbul] died April 7, 1600, Constantinople also spelled Baqi, in full Mahmud Abdlbk one of the …
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