المعلقات

Arabic

Etymology

Plural of مُعَلَّقَة (muʿallaqa, poster), derived from مُعَلَّق (muʿallaq, suspended, hung).

Proper noun

الْمُعَلَّقَات (al-muʿallaqāt) pl

  1. the Mu'allaqat (seven pre-Islamic odes (qasidas) supposedly hung in the Kaaba)

Declension

References

  • المعلقات” in J.A. Haywood and H.M. Nahmad (1965), A new Arabic grammar (second edition), London: Lund Humphries, →ISBN
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), علق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
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