"Prosodical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a house of hair (tent) or a couplet of verse. Watad (a tentpeg) also is prosodical, a foot when the two first letters are "moved" (vowelled) and the last is jazmated (quiescent), e.g. Lakad. It is termed Majmu'a (united), as opposed to "Mafruk" (separated), e.g. Kabla, when the "moved" consonants are ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 8 • Richard F. Burton |
