Meaning
The expansion of each couplet of a ghazal into a four-line stanza by prefixing two new lines, producing a murabba.
Literally: making four-fold
Related words
ARABIC
Murabba
A square; squared, fourfold.
ARABIC
Tazmin
The device of incorporating another poet's line or couplet into one's own poem, building new verse around the borrowed lines.
ARABIC
Takhmis
The expansion of each couplet of a ghazal into a five-line stanza by adding three new lines, producing a mukhammas.