Dirge

Noun

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

Synonyms

 * lament, requiem, coronach, threnody, elegy

Adjectives for Dirge
mournful; wailing; beautiful; prophetic; wrathful; death; funeral; undifferentiated; weird.

Verbs for Dirge
chant—; moan—; sing—; wail—; mourns.

Thesaurus
Brautlied, Christmas carol, Dry Mass, English sonnet, Eucharistic rites, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Kunstlied, Lady Mass, Liebeslied, Low Mass, Mass, Missa, Missa bassa, Missa cantata, Missa legata, Missa media, Missa praesanctificatorum, Missa privata, Missa publica, Missa sicca, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Requiem Mass, Rosary, Rosary Mass, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, Volkslied, alba, anacreontic, anthem, art song, aubade, balada, ballad, ballade, ballata, barcarole, bemoan, bewail, blues, blues song, boat song, bridal hymn, brindisi, bucolic, burial service, calypso, canso, canticle, canzone, canzonet, canzonetta, carol, cavatina, chanson, chant, chantey, clerihew, coronach, croon, croon song, dead march, death knell, death song, deathwatch, deplore, dithyramb, ditty, drinking song, eclogue, elegize, elegy, epic, epicedium, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, eulogy, exequies, extreme unction, folk song, funeral march, funeral oration, funeral rites, funeral song, georgic, ghazel, give sorrow words, graveside oration, grieve, haiku, hymeneal, idyll, jingle, keen, knell, lament, last duty, last honors, last offices, last rites, lay, lied, lilt, limerick, love song, love-lilt, lyric, madrigal, matin, minstrel song, minstrelsy, moan, monody, mourn, muffled drums, narrative poem, national anthem, nursery rhyme, obsequies, ode, palinode, passing bell, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, poem, prothalamium, repine, requiem, requiem mass, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, satire, serena, serenade, serenata, sestina, sigh, sing the blues, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, sorrow, tanka, tenso, tenzone, the Divine Liturgy, the Liturgy, theme song, threnode, threnody, torch song, triolet, troubadour poem, verse, verselet, versicle, viaticum, villanelle, virelay, wake, war song, wedding song, weep over

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

Translations

 * Arabic: ترنيمة جنائزية
 * Bulgarian: погребална песен
 * Chinese: 挽歌 (wǎn gē)
 * Finnish: surulaulu, valituslaulu


 * French: chant funèbre
 * Irish: caoineadh
 * Serbo-Croatian: tužaljka, tužbalica, naricaljka, narikača
 * Spanish: canto fúnebre

Anagrams

 * gride
 * ridge, Ridge