dirge

English

Etymology

From the beginning of an antiphon in the Latin requiem (Dirige, Domine, deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam)

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: dûj, IPA^(key): /dɜː(ɹ)dʒ/
• (US) enPR: dûrj, IPA^(key): /dɝːdʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)dʒ

Noun

dirge (plural dirges)

1. A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.

Synonyms

• lament, requiem, coronach, threnody, elegy

Related terms

• dirgeful

Translations

a mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.

• Arabic: ترنيمة جنائزية f
• Bulgarian: погреба́лна пе́сен f (pogrebálna pésen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 輓歌 (zh), 挽歌 (zh) (wǎngē), 哀樂 (zh), 哀乐 (zh) (āiyuè), 哀歌 (zh) (āigē)

• Dutch: lijkzang m, treurzang m
• Finnish: surulaulu, valituslaulu
• French: chant funèbre m
• German: Klagelied (de) n, Trauersang m, Grabsang m

• Irish: caoineadh
• Japanese: 哀歌 (あいか, aika), 弔歌 (ちょうか, chōka)
• Maori: apakura, pihe
• Russian: погреба́льная песнь f (pogrebálʹnaja pesnʹ), панихи́да (ru) f (panixída)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: tužaljka, tužbalica, naricaljka, narikača

• Spanish: canto fúnebre m

Anagrams

• gride
• ridge, Ridge