تقطیع

تقطیع

Urdu

Etymology

From Arabic تَقْطِيع‎ (taqṭīʿ), verbal noun of قَطَعَ‎ (qaṭaʿa)

Noun

تَقْطِیع • (taqtī) f (Hindi spelling तक़्ती)

1. cutting into parts, dissection;
2. scansion

   ‏تقطيع کرنا‎‎

   perform scansion

3. caesura, in the context of poetry (especially Urdu poetry)

References

• Platts, John Thompson. A dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1884.