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Arabic · noun · Poetry, Speech & Art

Tarah

तरह
said ta-rah
Meaning

A given meter-and-rhyme pattern set for a poetic gathering, on which all poets must compose.

How Iqbal uses it

At a mushaira a tarah fixes the zameen so that every participant's ghazal shares the same metrical and rhyming ground.

See it in the verse

Tarah in Iqbal’s couplets

Khudi ka nasheman tere dil mein hai
Falak jis tarah aankh ke til mein hai
The nest of your selfhood is inside your own heart — the way the whole sky lives inside the pupil of an eye.
Selfhood · Self-Knowledge
Related words
PERSIAN

Zameen-e-shairi

The poetic 'ground' of a ghazal: its combined meter, rhyme and refrain.

ARABIC

Qaafiya

The rhyme; the rhyming sound recurring before the refrain in a poem.

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