Misra'

A misra' (from Arabic مصراع miṣrāʿ, plural: مصاريع maṣārīʿ; Persian: مصراع;[1] Azerbaijani: misra;[2] Urdu: مصرع; Uzbek: misra) is a term used in Arabic, Persian, Turkic and Urdu poetry, which means 'half of a bayt'.[3]

In Arabic poetry, a misra' therefore means half of one line of poetry, a hemistich. The two halves of the line are separated by a space.

In Persian, Turkic and Urdu poetry, a misra' means one whole line of poetry. A ruba'i is a poem of four misra's, i.e. two bayts.

References
  1. Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892). "مصراع". A Comprehensive Persian–English Dictionary. p. 1252.
  2. "misra". Azərbaycan dilinin izahlı lüğəti (in Azerbaijani).
  3. miṣrāʿ in Encyclopædia Britannica
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