qiné

plural qinés

1. A form of poetry with double meanings, often used in traditional Ethiopian Orthodox Church education.

   Qiné is taken up by the best and most mature students.

   1997, Reidulf Knut Molvaer, Black Lions: The Creative Lives of Modern Ethiopia's Literary Giants and Pioneers, Red Sea Press, page 31

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   In November 1870 they secretly set out for Gonder, where they hoped to learn qiné, the celebrated art of composing poetry.

   1956, Studia Missionalia Upsaliensia, volumes 30-32, Svenska institutet för missionsforskning, page 15

   In this layered qiné dynamic, the “wax” signifies the surface meaning while the “gold” indicates a deeper hidden insight.

   2021, Thera Mjaaland, Revolutionary Struggles and Girls’ Education: At the Frontiers of Gender Norms in North-Ethiopia, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 40