Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of five letters.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Consisting of five letters.
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- adjective Consisting of
five letters .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The "branch" - foot Fá. 'ilun (No. 5), like its "root" Fa'ú. lun (No. 1), is quinqueliteral.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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E. Dáirat al-Muttafik, circle of "the concordant" metre, so called for the same reason why circle B is called "the agreeing," i.e. because the feet all harmonise in length, being here, however, quinqueliteral, not seven-lettered as in the Mátalif.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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“the agreeing,” i.e. because the feet all harmonise in length, being here, however, quinqueliteral, not seven-lettered as in the Mátalif.
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But if we are told that its Taf’íl in Arabic is Fa’úlun, we understand at once that it is composed of the Watad majmú’ fa’ú (U —) and the Sabab khafíf lun (-), and as the Watad contains three, the Sabab two letters, it forms a quinqueliteral foot or Juz khamásí.
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(-), and as the Watad contains three, the Sabab two letters, it forms a quinqueliteral foot or Juz khamásí.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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