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
On one grave a young woman was rocking herself to and fro, wailing with a sound like the Highland coronach, but longer and more despairing.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
Some old soldier, probably, playing a gathering or a coronach.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
Then rose the last coronach of his own people, hiding in wild glens, starving in corries, or going hopelessly to the death.
From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by Buchan, John
After every fight will not some mother be crooning the coronach for her dear son?
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Travis, Stuart