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qasida

  • /kaˈsiːdə/ UK
  • /kəˈsidə/ US

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From Arabic قَصِيدَة (qaṣīda).

noun qasidas · qaṣīda

  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.
  2. An Urdu panegyric poem

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noun poem

हिन्दीक़सीदा qasīdā, कसीदा kasīdā
DeutschKasside
Русскийкасы́да kasýda
العربيةقَصِيدَة qaṣīda

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"qasida." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/qasida. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026.

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"qasida." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 7, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/qasida.

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@misc{qasida_2026,
  title = {qasida},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/qasida},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}