مصراع

Arabic

Root
ص ر ع (ṣ-r-ʕ)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /misˤ.raːʕ/

Noun

مِصْرَاع • (miṣrāʕ) f

  1. shutter or wing of a door
    • 2018, وَجْدِيّ الْأَهْدَل [wajdiyy al-ʔahdal], أرض المؤامرات السعيدة, Bayrūt: Nawfal / Hachette Antoine, →ISBN, page 144:
      جريتُ خلفها وتركتُ الباب من جهة السائق مفتوحاً على مصراعه.
      I followed ran behind her and left the driver’s side door wide open.
  2. hemistich
    Holonym: بَيْت (bayt)

Declension

References

  • Baalbaki, Rohi (1995) “مصراع”, in Al-Mawrid: A Modern Arabic-English Dictionary, 7th edition, Beirut: Dar El-Ilm Lilmalayin, →ISBN
  • Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “مصراع”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “مصراع”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
  • Wehr, Hans (1960) “مصراع”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِصْرَاع (miṣrāʕ).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [mɪs.ɾɑ́ːʔ]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [mɪs.ɾɑ́ː]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [mis.ɾɔ́ː]

Readings
Classical reading? misrā'
Dari reading? misrā'
Iranian reading? mesrâ'
Tajik reading? misroʾ

Noun

مصراع • (mesrâ')

  1. (poetry) hemistich; half of a بیت (beyt, line of verse)

Usage notes

  • When translating into European languages, the length of a مصراع (mesrâ') usually corresponds to a line, and a بیت (beyt) to a two-line couplet. However, within the Persian tradition, the بیت (beyt) is considered the integral unit of poetry and the مصراع (mesrâ') is a secondary internal division.
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