troparion
Noun

troparion (plural troparia)

  1. 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.



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