Arabic · noun · Poetry, Speech & Art

Zihaf

ज़िहाफ़

said zi-HAAF

also written: Zihaaf,Zehaf,Zihaf

Meaning

A permitted variation or modification of a metrical foot, allowing controlled flexibility within a bahr.

Literally: a slipping, deviation

Related words

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

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

The science of prosody; the study of poetic meter.