قصیدہ

Urdu

Etymology

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Arabic قَصِيدَة (qaṣīda)bor.

Classical Persian قَصِیدَه (qasīda)bor.

Urdu قَصِیدَہ (qasīda)

Borrowed from Classical Persian قَصِیدَه (qasīda), borrowed from Arabic قَصِيدَة (qaṣīda). First attested in c. 1611 as Middle Hindi قصیدہ (qṣydh /⁠qasīda⁠/).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /qə.siː.d̪ɑ(ː)/
• Hyphenation: قَ‧صِی‧دَہ

Noun

قَصِیدَہ • (qasīda) m (formal plural قَصَائِد (qasāid), Hindi spelling क़सीदा)

1. (poetry) qasida (panegyric poetry; Urdu poetry that extols)
2. (by extension, Islam) a poem in praise of a religious figure, often Prophet Muhammad
3. (figuratively, ironic) a long ode, lecture; address (a humblebrag; flattery)

Declension

Declension of قصیدہ
	singular	plural
direct	قَصِیدَہ (qasīdah)	قَصِیدے (qasīde)
oblique	قَصِیدے (qasīde)	قَصِیدوں (qasīdõ)
vocative	قَصِیدے (qasīde)	قَصِیدو (qasīdo)

Further reading

• “قصیدہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “قصيده”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 466
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “قصيده”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 887
• John Shakespear (1834) “قصيده”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 1283