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مَوَالِيَا ذ , vulg. مَوَّال (not مَوَالِيَّا) A kind of short poem, generally of five lines, of which all but the penultimate end with the same rhyme: see note 5 to ch. xxvi. of my “ 1001 Nights. ”

Derived headwords

مَوَالِيَا
  1. 1.