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qasida

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[kuh-see-duh] / kəˈsi də /

noun

Prosody.
qasidas plural

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

Etymology

Origin of qasida

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

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