Arabic · noun · Poetry, Speech & Art
Tanasub
तनासुब
said ta-NAA-sub
also written: Tanasob,Tanasub
Meaning
Proportion and congruity — the harmonious correspondence among the images and words of a verse.
Literally: proportion, symmetry
Related words
ARABIC
Muraat-un-Nazir
The rhetorical device of bringing together, in one verse, several words belonging to the same field or association (such as sword, shield, battle, blood).
ARABIC
Riayat
The device of choosing words that bear an apt association or affinity with one another within a verse (riayat-e-lafzi).