Elegy in the Southern Kurdish Oral Literature

Abstract

Elegy is one of the most common and existing genres in the literature of most languages and dialects. The southern Kurdish literature that is known with feyli and Kalhori dialects, has also not gone away from the use of this genre of literature. In a kind of elegy that is called “Pâêa muri” or "Mur" in the southern Kurdish region, the honors, praised personality traits, good morals, and sometimes physical appearance of the dear deceased ones are counted. Sometimes, the speaker in this memorial speaks for his own sufferings as well. The woman, the man of the house, and the child are among the privileged individuals mentioned in the Kurdish elegies. The authors of this research collected these musicals with field surveys among older men and women - as the main guardians of the suspicion. In order to explain Mur as one of the cultural phenomena, in addition to categorizing, they examined the content and explained and analyzed them.

Keywords

• oral literature
• southern kurdish
• paea muri
• mur