Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mathnawi

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: math-nawi
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَثْنَوِيّ (maṯnawiyy).

Word Breakdown

Root: ث ن ي

Inflected Forms

mathnawis (plural) masnavi (alternative)

Questions

What does mathnawi mean?: 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.
Where does mathnawi come from?: Borrowed from Arabic مَثْنَوِيّ (maṯnawiyy).

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