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qaṣīda

qaṣīda is the alternative spelling 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 qaṣīda

pluralqaṣīdas

Questions about qaṣīda

What is qaṣīda the alternative spelling of?
Qaṣīda is the alternative spelling of qasida.

Words near qaṣīda in the dictionary

  1. qazis
  2. Qazvin
  3. Qazvīn
  4. Qazwin
  5. Qazzafi
  6. qaṣīda
  7. qaṣīdas
  8. Qaṭar
  9. QB
  10. Qball
  11. QBD

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: qaṣīda (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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