qasida

[ kuh-see-duh ]

noun

, Prosody.

, plural qa·si·da, qa·si·das.

1. an Arabic poem, usually in monorhyme, that may be satirical, elegiac, threatening, or laudatory.

Word History and Origins

Origin of qasida¹

First recorded in 1810–20, qasida is from the Arabic word qaṣīdah