Arabic · noun · Poetry, Speech & Art

Musaddas

मुसद्दस

said mu-SAD-das

also written: Musaddas,Musaddus

Meaning

A poem in six-line stanzas, each stanza rhyming AAAABB; a form used for grand narrative and reflective verse, famously by Hali.

Literally: six-fold, sextet

Related words

A poem in five-line stanzas; often built by adding three lines to each couplet of an existing ghazal.

A square; squared, fourfold.

An elegy, especially the long narrative lament commemorating the martyrdom of Imam Husain at Karbala.