Persian · noun · Poetry, Speech & Art

Tarahi-Mushaira

तरही-मुशायरा

said ta-ra-HEE-mu-SHAA-i-raa

also written: Tarahi Mushaira,Tarhi Mushaira

Meaning

A patterned mushaira in which every poet must compose a ghazal on a single prescribed misra-e-tarah, sharing its metre and rhyme.

Literally: a mushaira of the (set) pattern

Related words

A gathering at which poets recite their verse to an audience.

The given pattern-line, fixing the metre, qafia and radif, on which all poets must compose for a tarahi mushaira.

A unit of cloth length equal to one-sixteenth of a yard; also a knot.