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Level B2
Poetry & Prose
10 words · ~15 min
Grammar focus
Literary terminology and Arabic poetic meter (بحور الشعر) vocabulary
Cultural note
Arabic poetry has a tradition spanning over 1,500 years, from the pre-Islamic المعلقات to modern free verse pioneered by Nāzik al-Malāʾika.
Sample words from this lesson
شِعْر
shiʿr
poetry
نَثْر
nathr
prose
نَقْد أَدَبِيّ
naqd adabiyy
literary criticism
7 more words in this lesson
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