Arabic · noun · Poetry, Speech & Art
Tajnis
तजनीस
said taj-NEES
also written: Tajnees,Tajnis,Jinas
Meaning
Paronomasia — the play on words that sound alike but differ in meaning; punning as a poetic ornament.
Literally: making of the same kind, assimilation
Related words
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Sanat
Industry, manufacture, craft, or skilled art.
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Riayat
The device of choosing words that bear an apt association or affinity with one another within a verse (riayat-e-lafzi).
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Ihaam
A rhetorical device of deliberate ambiguity: a word with two senses is used so the listener first grasps the obvious, nearer sense while the poet intends the remoter, farther one.