tazia
Meanings
noun
- A representation of the tombs of Hasan and Husayn (the grandsons of Muhammad), carried in the South Asian and Indo-Caribbean Shiite processions of Muharram.
- Alternative form of ta'ziyeh (“a dramatic art form of Iran performed by Shiites and reenacting the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali at the Battle of Karbala, usually performed in the month of Muharram”)
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Etymology
From Arabic تَعْزِيَة (taʕziya, “consolation, mourning”). Sense 1 was borrowed through Urdu تَعْزِیَہ (ta'ziya).
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