lamentation

Etymology
Recorded since 1375, from, from the deponent verb , from , itself from a , presumed ultimately imitative. Replaced 🇨🇬. Lament is a 16th-century back-formation.

Noun

 * 1) The act of lamenting.
 * 2) A sorrowful cry; a lament.
 * 3) Specifically, mourning.
 * 4) lamentatio, (part of) a liturgical Bible text (from the book of Job) and its musical settings, usually in the plural; hence, any dirge
 * 5) A group of swans.
 * 1) A group of swans.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Ewe: konyifafa
 * Finnish: ,
 * Irish: acaoineadh
 * Italian:
 * Latin: lāmentātiō
 * Macedonian: оплаку́вање
 * Polish: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: rouwklacht
 * Ewe: konyifafa
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: θρῆνος
 * Macedonian: оплаку́вање
 * Plautdietsch: Jauma
 * Polish:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Tocharian B: kwasalñe


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian: ,
 * Ewe: konyifafa
 * Finnish:
 * Irish: acaoineadh
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ئاخ و واخ
 * Latin: lamentum
 * Macedonian: плач
 * Polish:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:


 * Polish:


 * French: ,
 * Spanish:

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * , loud/ostentatious plaint

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * , loud/ostentatious plaint