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<p>Adding <a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/Bharatpedia:Short_description" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Short description">short description</a>: &quot;Indian folk song&quot; (<a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/Bharatpedia:Shortdesc_helper" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Shortdesc helper">Shortdesc helper</a>)</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Indian folk song}}<br /> {{Unreferenced|date=June 2013}}<br /> &quot;&#039;&#039;&#039;Chirmi&#039;&#039;&#039;&quot; (in Rajasthani चिरमी ) is a traditional [[Music of Rajasthan|Rajasthani]] folk song. In this song a married girl waits for her father and brother.<br /> [[File:Abrus precatorius pods.jpg|thumbnail|This song is associated with &#039;&#039;Chirmi&#039;&#039; (Jequirity) plant.]]<br /> <br /> ==Meaning of Chirmi==<br /> Chirmi is a Rajasthani language word for [[Abrus precatorius]] / [[Jequirity]]. A married girl is climbing on [[Abrus precatorius|Chirmi plant]] waits for her father.<br /> <br /> ==In song==<br /> The first lines are चिरमी रा डाला चार (&#039;&#039;chirmi ra dalaa char&#039;&#039;). In the song, the married girl is saying &quot;my &#039;&#039;chirmi&#039;&#039; tree is very innocent. I climbed on the tree to see coming my father but my &#039;&#039;jeth&#039;&#039; (husband &#039;s elder brother) also climbed up on the tree then chirmi tree &#039;s branches urned broken.<br /> That married girl requests her jeth to get down from chirmi and saying &quot;My father is coming rode on horse and brother is riding on a camel.<br /> The horse is decorated with &#039;&#039;ghoongra&#039;&#039; (small bells) and the camel with &#039;&#039;loom&#039;&#039; (a type of decorative threads). The small bells gets rusted and the decorative threads gets dirt. So I will keep those bells in a purse and hang those threads on a hanger.<br /> I will wash those bells with [[curd]] and dust out those decorative threads.<br /> <br /> ==Significance==<br /> This is a significant part of [[Rajasthani people|Rajasthani]] music and culture.<br /> <br /> {{authority control}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Indian folk songs]]<br /> [[Category:Rajasthani music]]<br /> [[Category:Year of song unknown]]<br /> [[Category:Songwriter unknown]]</div>

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