troparion
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English
Etymology
Ancient Greek τροπάριον (tropárion)
Pronunciation
Noun
troparion (plural troparions or troparia)
- (Eastern Orthodoxy, music) A short hymn of one stanza, or organised in more complex forms as a series of stanzas.
- Coordinate term: apolytikion
- 1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 31:
- When awakened, Kyr Avram sits in bed and, as if out of fear, sings troparia and contakia in honor of his ancestors, whom the Serbian church has declared saints.
