adiakari

From adia (“lament”) +‎ -kari.

• IPA^(key): /adiakaɾi/
• Rhymes: -aɾi
• Hyphenation: a‧di‧a‧ka‧ri

adiakari anim

1. weeper (particularly a hired mourner)

   Synonyms: adiagile, erostari

   • 1913, Marcel Proust, translated by Joxe Austin Arrieta, Swann-etik [Swann's Way] (Denbora galduaren bila [In Search of Lost Time])‎, Alberdania-Elkar, published 2010, →ISBN:

     Txori bat ote, perpaus txikiaren arima oraino osagabea ote, lamina bat ote, izaki ikusezin eta adiakari hori, zeinaren pleinua segidan errepikatzen baitzuen pianoak samurki?

     Was it a bird, was it the soul, as yet not fully formed, of the little phrase, was it a fairy—that being invisibly lamenting, whose plaint the piano heard and tenderly repeated?

2. Eurasian scops owl (Otus scops)

   Synonym: apo-hontz

   • 2012, J.M. Olaizola "Txiliku", Piztiarioak‎, Elkar, →ISBN:

     Adiakaria izenekoa ere askotan aipatu ohi da, eta hontzaren edo urubiaren antzeko animalia bat dela uste da.

     The so-called weeper is often mentioned too, and it is thought to be an animal similar to barn owls or wood owls.

• “adiakari”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
• “adiakari”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005