Chirmi
"Chirmi" (in Rajasthani चिरमी ) is a traditional Rajasthani folk song. In this song, a married girl waits for her father and brother.
Meaning of Chirmi
Chirmi is a Rajasthani language word for Abrus precatorius / Jequirity. A married girl climbing on a Chirmi plant waits for her father.
In song
The first lines are चिरमी रा डाला चार (chirmi ra dalaa char). In the song, the married girl is saying "my chirmi tree is very innocent. I climbed on the tree to see my father coming, but my jeth (husband's elder brother) also climbed up on the tree, then the Chirmi tree's branches turned broken. That married girl requests her jeth to get down from the Chirmi and saying "My father is coming riding on a horse and my brother is riding on a camel. The horse is decorated with ghoongra (small bells) and the camel with loom (a type of decorative threads). The small bells get rusted and the decorative threads get dirty. So I will keep those bells in a purse and hang those threads on a hanger. I will wash those bells with curd and dust out those decorative threads.
Significance
This is a significant part of Rajasthani music and culture.
References
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