Arabic · noun · Poetry, Speech & Art

Taqti

तक़्ती

said taq-TEE

also written: Taqtee,Takti,Taqtia

Meaning

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

Literally: a cutting up, division

Related words

The science of prosody; the study of poetic meter.

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

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