Elegy

Noun

 * 1) A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.

Synonyms

 * dirge, threnody

Coordinate terms

 * requiem – a piece of music played at a mass for the dead

Derived terms

 * elegiac

Adjectives
Sapphic; biblical; funeral; lamenting; somber; pastoral.

Thesaurus
English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, alba, anacreontic, balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic, canso, chanson, clerihew, coronach, dead march, death knell, death song, dirge, dithyramb, eclogue, epic, epicedium, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, eulogy, funeral march, funeral oration, funeral song, georgic, ghazel, graveside oration, haiku, idyll, jingle, keen, knell, limerick, lyric, madrigal, monody, muffled drums, narrative poem, nursery rhyme, ode, palinode, passing bell, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, poem, prothalamium, requiem, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, satire, sestina, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, tanka, tenso, tenzone, threnode, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, verse, verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay

Etymology
1514, from elegie:, from  elegia:, from  ἐλεγεία ᾠδή:, from ἐλεγεία:, feminine of ἐλεγεῖος:, from ἔλεγος:, perhaps from.

Translations

 * Arabic: رثاء
 * Bosnian:
 * Chinese: 挽歌 (wǎn gē)
 * Croatian:
 * Danish:, klagesang,  sørgedigt
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: suruvirsi, valitusvirsi,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Hebrew: הספד (hesped)
 * Polish:
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 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: cumha, tuireadh , marbhnach , marbhrann
 * Serbian: narikača, žalopojka , tužbalica
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:, ,  mersiye

Anagrams

 * lyege