qasida
UK/kaˈsiːdə/US/kəˈsidə/
qasida noun: an Arabic or Persian elegiac monorhyme poem, usually having a tripartite structure.
Noun
qasida (plural qasidas)
- 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
- The qasida is a formal multithematic ode addressed to a member of the elite in praise.2000, María Rosa Menocal, Raymond P. Scheindlin, The Literature of Al-Andalus
- An Urdu panegyric poem
qasida meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Gujarati
qasida in Hindi
- poem
- क़सीदा qasīdā, कसीदा kasīdā
qasida in Urdu
- poem
- قَصِیدَہ qasīda
qasida in Bengali
- poem
- কাসিদা kaśida
qasida in Gujarati
- qasida
- કસીદો kasīdo
More languagesFewer languages
- qasida in Pashto
- قصيده qasidá
- qasida in Arabic
- قَصِيدَة qaṣīda
- qasida in Malay
- qasidah
- qasida in Indonesian
- kasidah
Forms of qasida
| plural | qasidas |
|---|---|
| alternative form | qaṣīda |
Origin of qasida
From Arabic قَصِيدَة (qaṣīda).
Questions about qasida
- What does qasida mean?
- Qasida means an Arabic or Persian elegiac monorhyme poem, usually having a tripartite structure.
- What is qasida in Hindi?
- Qasida in Hindi is क़सीदा (qasīdā), कसीदा (kasīdā). See Qasida meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is qasida?
- Qasida is a noun.
- How do you pronounce qasida?
- Qasida is pronounced /kaˈsiːdə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of qasida?
- The plural of qasida is qasidas.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: qasida (page history and authors); કસીદો (Gujarati) (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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