elegy

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• Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɛlɪd͡ʒi/
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From Middle French elegie, from Latin elegīa, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐλεγείᾱ (elegeíā), ellipsis of ἐλεγείᾱ ᾠδή (elegeíā ōidḗ, “an elegiac song”).

68 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: رِثَاء (riṯāʔ) — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Arabic: مَرْثِيَة (marṯiya) — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Bulgarian: елегия (elegija) — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Catalan: elegia — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Chinese: 哀歌 (ai-ko) — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Chinese Mandarin: 挽歌 (wǎngē) — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Chinese Mandarin: 哀歌 (āigē) — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Czech: žalozpěv — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Czech: elegie — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Danish: elegi — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Danish: klagesang — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Danish: sørgedigt — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Dutch: klaaglied — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Esperanto: elegio — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Finnish: suruvirsi — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Finnish: valitusvirsi — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Finnish: elegia — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• French: élégie — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Galician: elexía — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• German: Elegie — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Greek: ελεγεία (elegeía) — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Ancient Greek: ἐλεγεία (elegeía) — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Haitian Creole: eleji — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Hebrew: קִנָּה (kiná) — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Hebrew: אלגיה — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Hungarian: elégia — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Indonesian: elegi — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Irish: marbhna — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Middle Irish: marbnad — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Japanese: 哀歌 (aika) — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Japanese: 悲歌 (hika) — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Japanese: エレジー (erejī) — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Korean: 만가 (man'ga) — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Ladino: endecha — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Latin: elegīa — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Latin: elegī — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Macedonian: еле́гија (elégija) — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Old English: līclēoþ — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Polish: elegia — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Portuguese: elegia — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Romanian: elegie — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Russian: эле́гия (elégija) — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Scottish Gaelic: cumha — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Scottish Gaelic: tuireadh — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Scottish Gaelic: marbhnach — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Scottish Gaelic: marbhrann — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Serbo-Croatian: narikača — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Serbo-Croatian: žalopojka — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Serbo-Croatian: tužbalica — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Serbo-Croatian: elegija — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Slovak: elégia — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Spanish: elegía — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Spanish: endecha — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Spanish: epicedio — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Spanish: epiceyo — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Spanish: nenia — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Swedish: elegi — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Tagalog: elehiya — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Tibetan: སྨྲེ་ངག (smre ngag) — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Tibetan: གདུང་དབྱངས (gdung dbyangs) — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Tibetan: སྐྱོ་གླུ (skyo glu) — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Turkish: ağıt — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Turkish: sagu — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Turkish: mersiye — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Ukrainian: еле́гія (eléhija) — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Welsh: marwnad — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Yiddish: עלעגיע (elegye) — mournful or plaintive poem or song
• Zazaki: hewal — mournful or plaintive poem or song