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Dubaiti

दुबैती
said du-BAI-tee
also written: Dobaiti,Du-Baiti,Dubaitee
Meaning

A two-couplet (four-line) poem in a metre distinct from the rubai; a quatrain of the song tradition.

Literally: of two couplets

Related words
ARABIC

Rubai

A quatrain — a self-contained four-line poem in a fixed metre, usually rhyming AABA, often epigrammatic or philosophical.

ARABIC

Qit'a

A short poem or fragment of consecutively rhymed couplets on a single idea.

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