troparion
English
Etymology
Ancient Greek τροπάριον (tropárion)
Noun
troparion (plural troparia)
- In Byzantine music and in the religious music of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, a short hymn of one stanza, or organised in more complex forms as a series of stanzas.
- 1988, Christina Pribićević-Zorić, translating Milorad Pavić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage 1989, p. 31:
- When awakened, Kyr Avram sits in bed and, as if out of fear, sings troparia and contakia in honor of his ancestors, when the Serbian church has declared saints.
- 1988, Christina Pribićević-Zorić, translating Milorad Pavić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage 1989, p. 31:
Anagrams
- proration