Arabic · noun · Poetry, Speech & Art

Rukn

रुक्न

said rukn

also written: Rukan,Arkan

Meaning

A metrical foot — one of the repeating syllabic units (such as fa'ulun, mafa'ilun) from which a bahr is built.

Literally: a pillar, support

Related words

Sea; (dariya) river or large body of water.

The science of prosody; the study of poetic meter.

Scansion — the act of breaking a line into its metrical feet to test whether it conforms to its bahr.