Halay

Halay[a] is a regional category of folk dance styles in central and southeastern Anatolia. The music accompanying the dance is the zurna and davul.[1] It begins slow and speeds up.[1] The word Halay is derived from the words hilayi or halayi, which is in the Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish, meaning "standing up, playing".This Kurdish word is derived from the verb "hildan" or "haldan" in Kurdish.[2][3]

The Ohuokhai dance.
Yalli (Kochari, Tenzere), traditional group dances of Nakhchivan
CountryAzerbaijan
DomainsFolk dance
Reference1190
RegionMiddle East
Inscription history
Inscription2018 (13th session)


Halay is a traditional dance in Middle East it mostly played during wedding on the zurna, supported by a davul, but in the recent years, electronic instruments have started to replace them. Typically, Halay dancers form a circle or a line, while holding each other with the little finger or shoulder to shoulder or even hand to hand with the last and first player holding a piece of cloth. It is a national dance from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, and Turkey. In Azerbaijani, yal means "row, line of chain"; the dancers stand in one line or two rows and sometimes in several rows.

The Ohuokhai is a simultaneous round dance and song. Dancers form a circle and dance, arm in arm, hand in hand, with the left foot put forward, while making rhythmical, graceful movements with their bodies, legs, feet and arms. A lead singer improvises the lyrics and the other dancers repeat them. This Ohuokhai leader has a special talent not only for singing but also, what is more important, for poetic improvisation. There song leaders compete at the national Yhyakh festival for the best poetic expression, best song and biggest circle.

Halay Region, consists of three sub-sections
Extension and distribution of folk dances in today’s Turkey
  1. Halay in Bozkır (Bozkır Halay): Central Anatolia in the East
  2. Halay in East (Doğu halay): East and Southeast Regions
  3. Çukurova Halay: Çukurova environment
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See also

Annotations
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    The Turkish word Halay is derived from Kurdish (Kurmanji) "hilayi" or "halayi", meaning "to stand", "jump" and "dance".[4] In Kurdish, it is known as Govend or Dîlan, in Syriac as Ḥeggāʾ (ܚܓܐ), in Azerbaijani as Yallı, in Armenian as šurǰpar (Շուրջպար), and in Greek as Chaláï (Χαλάϊ).

References
  1. Jan Laurens Hartong (2006). Musical Terms Worldwide: A Companion for the Musical Explorer. Semar Publishers Srl. pp. 132–. ISBN 978-88-7778-090-4.
  2. "Halay - Kelime Etimolojisi, Kelimesinin Kökeni". www.etimolojiturkce.com. Retrieved 2020-07-25.
  3. "Halay - Kelime Etimolojisi, Kelimesinin Kökeni". web.archive.org. 2015-12-27. Retrieved 2020-07-25.
  4. Sevan Nişanyan, Sözlerin Soyağacı: Çağdaş Türkçenin Etimolojik Sözlüğü (the family tree of words: an etymological dictionary of contemporary Turkish), Istanbul, 2007
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