isaaro
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Yoruba
Etymology
ì- (“nominalizing prefix”) + ṣí (“to open, to remove”) + àáró (“the stand of a cooking pot”), literally “To remove the stand of a cooking pot (that belonged to the elderly women who has died)”
Pronunciation
Noun
ìsààró
- A form of Yoruba oral poetry and ceremony performed at Ọ̀yọ́ Yoruba funerals of elderly women. It is usually lead by the head, or alágbaa, of a family worshipping the ọ̀jẹ̀ class of egúngún.
References
- Tajudeen, Opoola B. A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Gender Differentiation in Yoruba Burial Rites [1], 2019