Aruz wezni, or aruz prosody, is a kind of
Turkic
Turkic may refer to:
* anything related to the country of Turkey
* Turkic languages, a language family of at least thirty-five documented languages
** Turkic alphabets (disambiguation)
** Turkish language, the most widely spoken Turkic language
* ...
poetic rhythm. The earliest founder of this versification system was
Khalil ibn Ahmad
Abu ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad ibn ‘Amr ibn Tammām al-Farāhīdī al-Azdī al-Yaḥmadī ( ar, أبو عبدالرحمن الخليل بن أحمد الفراهيدي; 718 – 786 CE), known as Al-Farāhīdī, or Al-Khalīl, ...
. There were 16 kinds of modalities of aruz at first. Later Persian scholars added 3 kinds. For example, the
Turki
Chagatai (چغتای, ''Čaġatāy''), also known as ''Turki'', Eastern Turkic, or Chagatai Turkic (''Čaġatāy türkīsi''), is an extinct Turkic literary language that was once widely spoken across Central Asia and remained the shared literar ...
long poem ''
Happiness and Wisdom'' from the 11th century was written using a modality called "Mutaqallip".
[Teyipcan & Hao Guanzhong. ''Aluzi shilü '', ''Encyclopedia of China'' (Chinese Literature Edition), 1st ed.]
References
Turkic literature
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