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

Declension of noun مِصْرَاع (miṣrāʕ)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مِصْرَاع miṣrāʕ	الْمِصْرَاع al-miṣrāʕ	مِصْرَاع miṣrāʕ
Nominative	مِصْرَاعٌ miṣrāʕun	الْمِصْرَاعُ al-miṣrāʕu	مِصْرَاعُ miṣrāʕu
Accusative	مِصْرَاعًا miṣrāʕan	الْمِصْرَاعَ al-miṣrāʕa	مِصْرَاعَ miṣrāʕa
Genitive	مِصْرَاعٍ miṣrāʕin	الْمِصْرَاعِ al-miṣrāʕi	مِصْرَاعِ miṣrāʕi

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^[1], 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

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [mis.ˈɾɑːʔ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mɪs.ɾɑ́ːʔ]

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

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mes.ɹɒ́ːʔ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mis.ɾɔ́ʔ]

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.