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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

Khudi ka nasheman tere dil 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 unit of cloth length equal to one-sixteenth of a yard; also a knot.

ARABIC

Tarah

A given meter-and-rhyme pattern set for a poetic gathering, on which all poets must compose.

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