Noun
quatrain (plural quatrains)
- A poem in four lines.
- A stanza of four lines.
- Example:
- Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night,
- Has flung the Stone that puts the stars to flight:
- And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
- The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of light.
1894 December 26, The Sketch, London, page 396, column 1:The menu card was designed by Mr. Arthur Hacker, and further enriched by some charming verses in Omarian quatrains from Mr. Le Gallienne, who read them to a sympathetic audience.
Translations
a stanza of four lines
- Arabic: رُبَاعِيّ m (rubāʕiyy)
- Armenian: ռուբայի (hy) n (ṙubayi)
- Bulgarian: четиристишие n (četiristišie)
- Catalan: quartet m, quarteta f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 四行詩/四行诗 (zh) (sìhángshī), 四行連/四行连 (sìhánglián)
- Czech: čtyřverší n
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: kwatrijn (nl) n
- Estonian: katrään
- Finnish: nelisäe
- French: quatrain (fr) m
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Quartett (de) n
- Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
- Indonesian: pantun (id)
- Italian: quartina (it) f
- Japanese: 四行連 (よんぎょうれん, yongyōren), クウォートレイン (kuwōtorein), クワトレイン (kuwatorein)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: çarîne (ku) f
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: katrenas m
- Persian: رباعی (fa) (robâ'i)
- Polish: czterowiersz (pl) m, tetrastych m, kwartyna f
- Portuguese: quarteto (pt) m, quadra (pt) f
- Romanian: catren (ro) n
- Russian: четверости́шие (ru) n (četverostíšije), катре́н (ru) m (katrɛ́n)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: катрен m
- Roman: katren (sh) m
- Spanish: cuarteto (es)
- Swedish: quatrain c, kvadernar, kvatrin c, fyrrading c
- Tagalog: kuwarteta
- Turkish: dörtlük (tr)
- Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: thơ bốn câu
- Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
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