mathnawi

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَثْنَوِيّ (maṯnawiyy).

Noun

mathnawi (plural mathnawis)

  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.

Alternative forms

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