qasida UK /kaˈsiːdə/US /kəˈsidə/ noun2 •An Arabic or Persian elegiac monorhyme poem, usually having a tripartite structure.He was delighted to hear some music and listened with emotion to the wild qasidas that the old man sang – songs of the Arab canon full of the wild heart-sickness of the desert. — 1958 •An Urdu panegyric poem formsqasidas · qaṣīdas