المعلقات

Arabic

Etymology

Plural of مُعَلَّقَة (muʕallaqa, poster), derived from مُعَلَّق (muʕallaq, suspended, hung).

Proper noun

اَلْمُعَلَّقَات • (al-muʕallaqāt) pl

  1. the Mu'allaqat (seven famous pre-Islamic odes (qasidas))

Declension

References

  • Haywood, J.A., Nahmad, H.M. (1965) “المعلقات”, in A new Arabic grammar, 2nd edition, London: Lund Humphries, →ISBN
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “علق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
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