Wafir

Wāfir (Arabic: وَافِر, literally 'numerous, abundant, ample, exuberant') is a meter used in classical Arabic poetry. It is among the five most popular metres of classical Arabic poetry, accounting (alongside ṭawīl, basīṭ, kāmil, and mutaqārib) for 80-90% of lines and poems in the ancient and classical Arabic corpus.[1]

  1. ^ Paoli, Bruno (30 September 2009). "Generative Linguistics and Arabic Metrics". In Aroui, Jean-Louis; Arleo, Andy (eds.). Towards a Typology of Poetic Forms: From language to metrics and beyond. John Benjamins Publishing. pp. 193–208. ISBN 978-90-272-8904-9.