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prothalamion

prothalamion noun: a song or poem in honour of a bride and bridegroom about to be married.

Noun

prothalamion (plural prothalamions or prothalamia)

  1. (literary) A song or poem in honour of a bride and bridegroom about to be married.
    • Zauq then wrote his own prothalamion in which the last verse (in the same vein as Ghalib's) challenged the ability of those who made a claim to be poets to equal his writing of a sehra. Zauq's prothalamion was given very wide publicity by the professional singers in the palace, and the next day it...2000, Pavan K. Varma, Ghalib: The Man, The Times, Penguin UK, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    epithalamium

prothalamion meaning in Urdu

Synonyms of prothalamion

Forms of prothalamion

pluralprothalamions
pluralprothalamia
alternative formprothalamium

Origin of prothalamion

After Prothalamion, title of a 16th-century poem by Edmund Spenser, from Ancient Greek πρό (pró, “for”) + thalamion, as in epithalamion.

Questions about prothalamion

What does prothalamion mean?
Prothalamion means a song or poem in honour of a bride and bridegroom about to be married.
What is prothalamion in Urdu?
Prothalamion in Urdu is سہرا. See Prothalamion meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is prothalamion?
Prothalamion is a noun.
What is the plural of prothalamion?
The plural of prothalamion is prothalamions.

Words near prothalamion in the dictionary

  1. Proth numbers
  2. Proth prime
  3. Proth primes
  4. Proth's test
  5. prothalamia
  6. prothalamion
  7. prothalamions
  8. prothalamium
  9. prothalamiums
  10. prothalli
  11. prothallia

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