isaaro

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

IPA^(key): /ì.sàà.ɾó/

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