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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(literary) A song or poem in honour of a bride and bridegroom about to be married..
Zauq then wrote his own prothalamion in which the last verse (in the same vein as Ghalib's) challenged the ability of those who made a claim to be poets to equal his writing of a sehra. Zauq's prothalamion was given very wide publicity by the professional singers in the palace, and the next day it was published in the local newspaper.
Use prothalamion when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Prothalamion means (literary) A song or poem in honour of a bride and bridegroom about to be married..
Common synonyms include epithalamium.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Zauq then wrote his own prothalamion in which the last verse (in the same vein as Ghalib's) challenged the ability of those who made a claim to be poets to equal his writing of a sehra. Zauq's prothalamion was given very wide publicity by the professional singers in the palace, and the next day it was published in the local newspaper.
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