coronach

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"Naihah" more generally "Naddábah" Lat. præfica or carina, a hired mourner, the Irish "Keener" at the conclamatio or coronach, where the Hullabaloo, Hulululu or Ululoo showed the survivors' sorrow.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

"The coronach has for some years past been suspended at funerals by the use of the bagpipe; and that also is, like many other Highland peculiarities, falling into disuse, unless in remote districts."

From The Lady of the Lake by Scott, Walter, Sir

And the mermen swam fast to be with her, and ceased from their own song, for the wind sang a coronach in the canvas and cordage.

From The Field of Clover by Housman, Laurence

But when they fell there was none to sing their coronach or wail the death-wail over them. 

From Lay Morals by Stevenson, Robert Louis

There more than once in what remained of the night, he woke, fancying he heard the ghost-music sounding its coronach over the dead below.

From Donal Grant, by George MacDonald by MacDonald, George