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"Chirmi" (in Rajasthani चिरमी ) is a traditional Rajasthani folk song. In this song a married girl waits for her father and brother.
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Meaning of Chirmi
Chirmi is a Rajasthani language word for Abrus precatorius / Jequirity. A married girl is climbing on 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 coming my father but my jeth (husband 's elder brother) also climbed up on the tree then chirmi tree 's branches urned broken. That married girl requests her jeth to get down from chirmi and saying "My father is coming rode on horse and 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 gets rusted and the decorative threads gets dirt. 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.