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kasida

kasida is the alternative form of qasida.

Meaning of qasida

Noun

qasida (plural qasidas)

  1. An Arabic or Persian elegiac monorhyme poem, usually having a tripartite structure.
    • 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.1958, Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar
  2. An Urdu panegyric poem

Forms of kasida

pluralkasidas

Questions about kasida

What is kasida the alternative form of?
Kasida is the alternative form of qasida.

Words near kasida in the dictionary

  1. Kashyap
  2. Kashyapa
  3. Kashyaps
  4. Kasibu
  5. Kasich
  6. kasida
  7. kasidas
  8. Kasik
  9. Kasiks
  10. Kasilawan
  11. Kasily

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kasida (page history and authors); qasida (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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