Qaraami

[ibrahim hirsi]

I was reading one of the topics on the forum today about Qaraami and many of the people thought that qaraami was a love song with a guitar its not the qaraami is a chain of small love poems called belwos and is dictated by the style it is sung in there are around 66 styles of qaraami ranging from xaafuun to rogaal they are always about love for example this small tix

 

Sidii geed ku yaal bankii giriyaad

Goonidu waa wax laygu talagalay

 

Like a tree on the giriyaad plain

to be alone is what i was destined for

 

i have heard that sung in both the jowhara luula style and the subcis style a qaraami song would have several different tixs put together another one is

 

Haddi aad ubax tahay mid aad u uroo

Udgoon badan baad ahayn lahayd

If you were a flower, one with a strong scent

you would've been a fragrant one

 

some like the first one i posted sing of loneliness and lost love and some like the second one i posted praise the one love and there are many others

a qaraami song is genrally sung wth drums and oud a flute and some very lovely clapping but this is not always so it can be sung with just clapping.

 

 

if anyone has more iformation on Qaraami its history or the fathers of it (garabyare cabdi sinimo etc.) plz comment it below

[galbeedi]

66 styles , Mr. Ibraahim, isn't that too many.

 

Balwadii baxsatoo baribay qabatee

Baabuur Ma Ku baadi Doonaa.

 

Did you know that lyrics?.

[ibrahim hirsi]

you are right actually there werent 66 styles of qaraami i apolagise there were 63 sorry some of the ones i know are:

jiib

Laac

Subcis

Hinqad

Dhaawac

Riftoor

Jawhara luul

Rogaal

Banaadiri

Dhalad

Mudan

Laylay

Sigad

Muxubo

Ciil

Jalaaliyo

Liilalow

aroor

beerdilacshe

xaafuun

leyaab

higsad

nugul

dhamaq

iskushuban

madiix

raaxeeye

rakaat

horseed

hayaan

 

and thank you for that couplet i haven't heard it before have you heard this one?

Nabsigu wuu dhaxaa ee kuma dhaafo

Ma dheera ee wu kuu dhinac yaal