Mollamma at and Mothallathat or Bilingual and Trilingual poetries

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Molamma , a type of Persian poetry, which consists of one Persian line followed by an Arabic one, is found in the works of traditional Persian poets. Literature indicates that Shahid-e Balkhi , a 'fth century (HQ) Persian poet, was the first one to compose such type of poetries. Another type of Persian poetry, a sub-division of Molarnma known as Mothallath , is in fact a trilingual poetry, which consits of one Persian line, one Arabic line, followed by a line in Shirazi dialect