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prothalamions

prothalamions is the plural of prothalamion.

Meaning of prothalamion

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

Questions about prothalamions

What is prothalamions the plural of?
Prothalamions is the plural of prothalamion.

Words near prothalamions in the dictionary

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

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