qasida

See also: qaṣīda

English

Alternative forms

• qaṣīda

Etymology

From Arabic قَصِيدَة (qaṣīda).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kaˈsiːdə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kəˈsidə/

Noun

qasida (plural qasidas)

1. An Arabic or Persian elegiac monorhyme poem, usually having a tripartite structure.
   • 1958, Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar:

     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.

   • 2000, María Rosa Menocal, Raymond P. Scheindlin, The Literature of Al-Andalus:

     The qasida is a formal multithematic ode addressed to a member of the elite in praise.

Translations

Arabic or Persian poem

• Arabic: قَصِيدَة f (qaṣīda)
• Armenian: կասիդա (kasida)
• Azerbaijani: qəsidə
• German: Kasside f
• Hindi: क़सीदा (qasīdā), कसीदा (hi) m (kasīdā)
• Indonesian: kasidah (id)
• Persian: قصیده (fa) (qaside)
• Russian: касы́да (ru) f (kasýda)
• Tajik: қасида (qasida)
• Turkish: kaside (tr)
• Urdu: قصیدہ
• Uyghur: قەسىدە (qeside)
• Uzbek: qasida (uz)