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qasidas

qasidas is the plural 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

Questions about qasidas

What is qasidas the plural of?
Qasidas is the plural of qasida.

Words near qasidas in the dictionary

  1. Qashgai
  2. Qashqadaryo
  3. Qashqai
  4. qashta
  5. qasida
  6. qasidas
  7. Qasim
  8. qaspeq
  9. qaspeqs
  10. qasr
  11. qasrs

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