English

Alternative forms

• qaṣīda

Noun

qasida ‎(plural qasidas)

1. An Arabic or Persian elegiac monorhyme poem, usually having a tripartite structure.
   • 1958, Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar:

     He was delighted to hear some music and listened with emotion to the wild qasidas that the old man sang – songs of the Arab canon full of the wild heart-sickness of the desert.

   • 2000: María Rosa Menocal, Raymond P. Scheindlin, The Literature of Al-Andalus

     The qasida is a formal multithematic ode addressed to a member of the elite in praise.

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