حماسه

See also: حماسة

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَمَاسَة (ḥamāsa, “enthusiasm”), in reference to the Kitāb al-Ḥamāsa or Book of Enthusiasm, a ninth-century collection of early Arabic epic poems. However, the term was coined recently. Classical poets classified poetry according to rhyme rules and not content; all epic poems would then belong to the مثنوی (masnavi) form, but that includes all narrative poems (e.g. romances) and not just epics.[1]

Pronunciation

Readings
Iranian reading? hamâse

Noun

حماسه • (hamâse)

  1. epic poem

References
  1. De Blois, François (2011) “Epics”, in iranicaonline.org, Encyclopaedia Iranica
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