哀歌 — meaning in English
aika
Japanese → English · translate English → Japanese instead
English meaning
- dirge noun A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a deceased person.
- elegy noun A poem or piece of music written in mourning for someone who has died, or in a serious, reflective, sorrowful tone.
- threnody noun A song or poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy.
Senses
哀歌 is used for these senses in English:
- Lamentations (book of the bible) a book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh
- dirge A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
- elegy A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation. [from early 16th c.]
- threnody A song or poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy.
dirge — full definition
- noun A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a deceased person.
- noun A song or piece of music that is considered too slow, bland or boring.