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jirtig

jirtig noun: a traditional Sudanese wedding ritual.

jirtig: a traditional Sudanese wedding ritual
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Noun

jirtig (uncountable)

  1. A traditional Sudanese wedding ritual.
    • Murray notes that the "jirtig" ceremony is prevalent throughout the northern Sudan (1927:45), and Trimingham (1949:182) informs us that the jirtig wedding is common in most of the northern Sudan "amongst the riverain tribes (Mahas, Danaqla, Ja'aliyyin, and Sha'iqiyya), in Northern and Central...2018 January 16, Esther Hicks, Infibulation: Female Mutilation in Islamic Northeastern Africa, Routledge, →ISBN

Origin of jirtig

Borrowed from Sudanese Arabic جرتق (jirtig).

Questions about jirtig

What does jirtig mean?
Jirtig means a traditional Sudanese wedding ritual.
What part of speech is jirtig?
Jirtig is a noun.

Words near jirtig in the dictionary

  1. Jiron
  2. Jirons
  3. jirr
  4. jirra
  5. jirre
  6. jirtig
  7. JIS
  8. jisei
  9. Jishan
  10. Jishnu
  11. Jishou

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