Mathnawi is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means “couplet”, “binary”, “in twos”, “in pairs”. Mathnawi usually refers to a format of poetry in which each two lines rhyme and have the same metre. It is usually pronounced in the Persian way (Masnavi) to refer to the Masnavi of Rumi, which is a work of poetry composed by the Persian poet Jalaluddin Rumi.