मसनवी

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مثنوی (masnawī), from Arabic مَثْنَوِيّ (maṯnawiyy).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /məs.nə.ʋiː/, [mɐs.nɐ.ʋiː]

Noun

मसनवी • (masnavī) f (Urdu spelling مثنوی)

1. masnavi: a kind of poem written in rhyming couplets

Declension

Declension of मसनवी (fem ī-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	मसनवी masnavī	मसनवियाँ masnaviyā̃
oblique	मसनवी masnavī	मसनवियों masnaviyõ
vocative	मसनवी masnavī	मसनवियो masnaviyo

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “मसनवी”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press