Arabic · noun · Poetry, Speech & Art

Tashtir

तश्तीर

said tash-TEER

also written: Tashteer,Tashtir

Meaning

The device of splitting each line of an existing couplet and inserting a new line between the halves, expanding it into a stanza.

Literally: a halving, splitting in two

Related words

A poem in five-line stanzas; often built by adding three lines to each couplet of an existing ghazal.

The expansion of a couplet into a six-line stanza by adding four lines, producing a musaddas.