Urdu Dictionary

قافيه qāfiya for A. قافية qāfiyat, v.n. fr. قفو 'to follow'

P قافيه qāfiya (for A. قافية qāfiyat, v.n. fr. قفو 'to follow'), s.m. The rhyme, cadence, metre, the last letter in a verse (to which all the other distichs rhyme; in poems which terminate in a double rhyme, the penult syllable is qāfiya, the last being called radīf):—qāfiya-bandī, s.f. Rhyming:—qāfiya tang karnā (-kā), To exhaust all (one's) rhymes;—to reduce (one) to great straits; to perplex, confuse:—qāfiya tang honā (-kā), To be hard pressed for a rhyme;—to be hard pressed, be entangled in difficulties; to be very poor or destroyed:—qāfiya milānā, v.n. To rhyme.