pantoum

English

Etymology

From French pantoum, from Malay pantun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pænˈtuːm/

Noun

pantoum (plural pantoums)

1. A poem, similar to a villanelle, that comprises a series of quatrains, the second and fourth lines of each stanza repeated as the first and third lines of the next.

Translations

A poem similar to a villanelle

• Finnish: pantoum
• Indonesian: pantun (id)
• Malay: pantun (ms)

French

Noun

pantoum m (plural pantoums)

1. pantoum

Further reading

• “pantoum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.