troparion

Etymology

Ancient Greek τροπάριον (tropárion)

noun

1. In Byzantine music and in the religious music of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, a short hymn of one stanza, or organised in more complex forms as a series of stanzas.
   Coordinate term: apolytikion
   When awakened, Kyr Avram sits in bed and, as if out of fear, sings troparia and contakia in honor of his ancestors, when the Serbian church has declared saints. 1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 31