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radif

radif noun: the word which must end both lines of the first couplet and the second line of all the following couplets in a Persian, Turkic or Urdu ghazal.

Noun

radif (plural radifs)

  1. The word which must end both lines of the first couplet and the second line of all the following couplets in a Persian, Turkic or Urdu ghazal.

radif meaning in Urdu, Punjabi, Pashto and Arabic

radif in Urdu

Translations
رَدِیف radīf

radif in Punjabi

radif
ردیف radīf

radif in Pashto

radif
رديف

radif in Arabic

Translations
رَدِيف radīf
More languagesFewer languages
radif in Persian
ردیف radif

Forms of radif

pluralradifs

Origin of radif

From Classical Persian رَدِیف (radīf), from Arabic رَدِيف (radīf).

Questions about radif

What does radif mean?
Radif means the word which must end both lines of the first couplet and the second line of all the following couplets in a Persian, Turkic or Urdu ghazal.
What is radif in Urdu?
Radif in Urdu is رَدِیف (radīf). See Radif meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is radif?
Radif is a noun.
What is the plural of radif?
The plural of radif is radifs.

Words near radif in the dictionary

  1. radient
  2. radiesthesia
  3. radiesthesist
  4. radiesthesists
  5. radiesthetic
  6. radif
  7. radiferous
  8. radifs
  9. Radigan
  10. Radigans
  11. radii

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: radif (page history and authors); ردیف (Punjabi) (page history and authors); رديف (Pashto) (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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