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رَوِيّ
rhyme letter /raˈwijː/
nounB1#2691 most common
Also: rhyme consonant, rhyme sound
Example sentences
الرَّوِيُّ حرفٌ مهم.
The rhyme letter is an important letter.
رَوِيُّ هذه القصيدةِ هو حرفُ الدال.
The rhyme letter of this poem is the letter dal.
يختارُ الشاعرُ الرَّوِيَّ قبل أن يبدأ في نظم القصيدة.
The poet chooses the rhyme letter before he begins composing the poem.
يتكرر الرَّوِيُّ في نهاية كل بيتٍ من أبيات القصيدة العربية التقليدية.
The rhyme letter recurs at the end of every line of a traditional Arabic poem.
يُعَدُّ اختيارُ الرَّوِيِّ من أهمِّ القرارات الفنية التي يتخذها الشاعر في العروض العربي.
Choosing the rhyme letter is one of the most important artistic decisions a poet makes in Arabic prosody.
تتنوع القوافي العربية بحسب حركة الرَّوِيِّ وما يسبقه من حروف المد، مما يمنح القصيدة إيقاعها الموسيقي الخاص.
Arabic rhymes vary according to the vowel on the rhyme letter and the long vowels before it, and this gives the poem its distinct musical rhythm.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | رَوِيٌّ | رَوِيَّاتٌ |
| Genitive | رَوِيٍّ | رَوِيَّاتٍ |
| Accusative | رَوِيًّا | رَوِيَّاتٍ |
| Vocative | يا رَوِيُّ | يا رَوِيَّاتُ |
Word family
رَاوِيnarrator, reciter of poetry or hadith
رِوَايَةnovel, narration, account
رَوَىto narrate, to relate, to reciteقَافِيَةrhyme (the broader term the rhyme letter belongs to)
Etymology
The word comes from the Arabic root ر و ي (r-w-y), the same root behind رِوَاية (narration, novel) and رَاوِي (narrator, reciter). Classical prosodists borrowed the term for the recurring rhyme consonant, likely because this letter is the fixed sound a reciter had to keep track of and repeat across every line of a poem. The pattern فَعِيّ then merges the root's final radical with the pattern's own ending, giving the doubled -iyy sound.
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