dirge

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• Received-Pronunciation: dûj
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• Received-Pronunciation: /dɜːdʒ/
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• General-American: dûrj
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• General-American: /dɝd͡ʒ/
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ
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• CMU ARPABET: D ER1 JH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English dirige, from Latin dirige (“steer, direct”), from the beginning of the first antiphon in matins for the dead, Dirige, Domine, deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam. Doublet of dirige.

77 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: treurlied — mournful poem or piece of music
• Albanian: ligje — mournful poem or piece of music
• Albanian: gjëmë — mournful poem or piece of music
• Albanian: gjâmë — mournful poem or piece of music
• Albanian: vajtim — mournful poem or piece of music
• Albanian: pleqërishtë — mournful poem or piece of music
• Albanian: lashtërishtë — mournful poem or piece of music
• Arabic: تَرْنِيمَة جَنَائِزِيَّة — mournful poem or piece of music
• Bashkir: йыназа (yınaza) — mournful poem or piece of music
• Bulgarian: погреба́лна пе́сен (pogrebálna pésen) — mournful poem or piece of music
• Catalan: complanta — mournful poem or piece of music
• Catalan: plany — mournful poem or piece of music
• Catalan: cant fúnebre — mournful poem or piece of music
• Chinese Cantonese: 哀樂 /哀乐 (oi1 ngok6) — mournful poem or piece of music
• Chinese Cantonese: 哀歌 (oi1 go1) — mournful poem or piece of music
• Chinese Mandarin: 輓歌 /挽歌 (wǎngē) — mournful poem or piece of music
• Chinese Mandarin: 哀樂 /哀乐 (āiyuè) — mournful poem or piece of music
• Chinese Mandarin: 哀歌 (āigē) — mournful poem or piece of music
• Czech: truchlozpěv — mournful poem or piece of music
• Czech: žalozpěv — mournful poem or piece of music
• Czech: pohřební píseň — mournful poem or piece of music
• Dutch: lijkzang — mournful poem or piece of music
• Dutch: treurzang — mournful poem or piece of music
• Dutch: treurlied — mournful poem or piece of music
• Dutch: rouwzang — mournful poem or piece of music
• Finnish: surulaulu — mournful poem or piece of music
• Finnish: suruvirsi — mournful poem or piece of music
• French: chant funèbre — mournful poem or piece of music
• German: Klagelied — mournful poem or piece of music
• German: Trauersang — mournful poem or piece of music
• German: Grabsang — mournful poem or piece of music
• Ancient Greek: θρῆνος (thrênos) — mournful poem or piece of music
• Hungarian: gyászének — mournful poem or piece of music
• Hungarian: gyászdal — mournful poem or piece of music
• Hungarian: panaszdal — mournful poem or piece of music
• Hungarian: halotti ének — mournful poem or piece of music
• Hungarian: kesergő — mournful poem or piece of music
• Hungarian: siratóének — mournful poem or piece of music
• Irish: caoineadh — mournful poem or piece of music
• Italian: nenia — mournful poem or piece of music
• Italian: lamentazione — mournful poem or piece of music
• Italian: lagna — mournful poem or piece of music
• Japanese: 哀歌 (aika) — mournful poem or piece of music
• Japanese: 弔歌 (chōka) — mournful poem or piece of music
• Korean: 장송가 (jangsongga) — mournful poem or piece of music
• Korean: 만가 (man'ga) — mournful poem or piece of music
• Korean: 비가 (biga) — mournful poem or piece of music
• Korean: 조시 (josi) — mournful poem or piece of music
• Korean: 애가 (aega) — mournful poem or piece of music
• Latin: nēnia — mournful poem or piece of music
• Latin: mortuālium — mournful poem or piece of music
• Latin: aelinos — mournful poem or piece of music
• Latin: threnus — mournful poem or piece of music
• Macedonian: ре́дба (rédba) — mournful poem or piece of music
• Macedonian: та́жалка (tážalka) — mournful poem or piece of music
• Māori: apakura — mournful poem or piece of music
• Māori: pihe — mournful poem or piece of music
• Māori: tūkeka — mournful poem or piece of music
• Māori: matatangitangi — mournful poem or piece of music
• Māori: pōhangahanga — mournful poem or piece of music
• Old English: fūslēoþ — mournful poem or piece of music
• Polish: pieśń żałobna — mournful poem or piece of music
• Portuguese: elegia — mournful poem or piece of music
• Portuguese: nénia — mournful poem or piece of music
• Portuguese: nênia — mournful poem or piece of music
• Romanian: cântec funebru — mournful poem or piece of music
• Romanian: elegie — mournful poem or piece of music
• Romanian: recviem — mournful poem or piece of music
• Russian: погреба́льная песнь (pogrebálʹnaja pesnʹ) — mournful poem or piece of music
• Russian: панихи́да (panixída) — mournful poem or piece of music
• Russian: ре́квием (rékvijem) — mournful poem or piece of music
• Serbo-Croatian: tužaljka — mournful poem or piece of music
• Serbo-Croatian: tužbalica — mournful poem or piece of music
• Serbo-Croatian: naricaljka — mournful poem or piece of music
• Serbo-Croatian: narikača — mournful poem or piece of music
• Spanish: canto fúnebre — mournful poem or piece of music
• Yiddish: קלאָגליד (kloglid) — mournful poem or piece of music