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masnavi

masnavi is the alternative form of mathnawi.

Meaning of mathnawi

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.

Forms of masnavi

pluralmasnavis

Origin of masnavi

From Persian مثنوی.

Questions about masnavi

What is masnavi the alternative form of?
Masnavi is the alternative form of mathnawi.

Words near masnavi in the dictionary

  1. masman
  2. masmen
  3. Masmuda
  4. masnad
  5. masnads
  6. masnavi
  7. masnavis
  8. masochism
  9. masochisms
  10. masochist
  11. masochistic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: masnavi (page history and authors); mathnawi (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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