isaaro

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Yoruba

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Etymology

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ì- (nominalizing prefix) +‎ ṣí (to open, to remove) +‎ àáró (the stand of a cooking pot), literally To remove the stand of a cooking pot (that belonged to the elderly women who has died)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ìsààró

  1. A form of Yoruba oral poetry and ceremony performed at Ọ̀yọ́ Yoruba funerals of elderly women. It is usually lead by the head, or alágbaa, of a family worshipping the ọ̀jẹ̀ class of egúngún.

References

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  • Tajudeen, Opoola B. A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Gender Differentiation in Yoruba Burial Rites [1], 2019