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- Arabic · borrowed fromمَثْنَوِيّ
- English todaymathnawi
Borrowed from Arabic مَثْنَوِيّ (maṯnawiyy).
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Today it means: A kind of poem written in rhyming couplets, usually with a meter of ten or eleven syllables; found in Persian, Arabic, Turkish, Kurdish and Urdu cultures. Full definition →
Arabic مَثْنَوِيّ