Persian · noun · Poetry, Speech & Art
Misra-e-Tarah
मिसरा-ए-तरह
said MIS-raa-e-ta-RAH
also written: Misra-e-Tareh,Misraa-e-Tarah
Meaning
The given pattern-line, fixing the metre, qafia and radif, on which all poets must compose for a tarahi mushaira.
Literally: the line of the pattern
See it in the verse
Misra-e-Tarah in Iqbal’s couplets
Ho mere dam se yunhi watan ki zeenat
Jis tarah phool se hoti hai chaman ki zeenat
Jis tarah phool se hoti hai chaman ki zeenat
Let my country be adorned by me, as a garden is adorned by its flowers.
Aspiration · Youth · Action
Ho halqa-e-yaaran to bresham ki tarah narm
Razm-e-haq-o-baatil ho to faulad hai momin
Razm-e-haq-o-baatil ho to faulad hai momin
Among friends, the man of faith is soft as silk; in the battle of truth against falsehood, he is steel.
Courage · Selfhood · Justice
Khudi ka nasheman tere dil mein hai
Falak jis tarah aankh ke til mein hai
Falak jis tarah aankh ke til mein hai
The nest of your selfhood is inside your own heart — the way the whole sky lives inside the pupil of an eye.
Selfhood · Self-Knowledge
Related words
PERSIAN
Tarahi-Mushaira
A patterned mushaira in which every poet must compose a ghazal on a single prescribed misra-e-tarah, sharing its metre and rhyme.
PERSIAN
Girah
A knot; figuratively, a difficulty, complication, or problem to be untied.
ARABIC
Tarah
A given meter-and-rhyme pattern set for a poetic gathering, on which all poets must compose.