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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Arabic مَثْنَوِيّ (maṯnawiyy).

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mathnawi (plural mathnawis)

  1. A kind of poem written in rhyming couplets, usually with a meter of ten or eleven syllables; found in Persian, Arabic, Turkish, Kurdish and Urdu cultures.

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