Aidar kel — wind incantation.
Aitym kuulor — virtuoso instrumental performances.
Aitysh — a major singing and poetic competition among akyns.
Akynek — comedic women's or children's song-dialogue.
Akyn — folk-professional singer and improvisational poet.
Alym sabak — singing-poetic competition among akyns "catch the line".
Arman — genre of lyrical song.
Arnoo ыры — akyn's dedicatory song.
Asa-musa (asa-tayak) — musical-noise instrument.
Atkaruuchu — performer.
Ashyktik ыры — lyrical love songs.
Baatyr жонундо ыр — historical song (about heroes).
Badik aituu — healing incantation by bakshy.
Bakshy — Kyrgyz shaman.
Bakshynyn ыры — vocal genre of bakshy.
Balda ыры — children's songs.
Bayandoo ыры — akyn's narrative song.
Bekbekey — women's labor song.
Bet achar (bet achmay) — ritual wedding song.
Beshik ыры — lullaby.
Botoy — genre of instrumental performance.
Byubyu (bubu) — female bakshy.
Dambyr tash — spring incantation for rain.
Dary-duba — spell of a healer-darymchy.
Dastan — poetic tale, small epic.
Dastanchy — author and performer of dastans.
Dildirek — musical-noise instrument.
Dobulbash (dobulbas) — percussion musical instrument.
Dool — percussion musical instrument.
Duvana (dubana) — Kyrgyz dervish.
Duvananyn ыры — vocal genre of duvana.
Jaiychy — nature incantation.
Jamakchy — improvisational singer performing small akyn genres and folk songs.
Jaramazan — praise song performed during the Muslim fast "orozо".
Jaramazanchy — performer of the song "jaramazan".
Jар-жар ай — ritual wedding song.
Jар коруу — ritual wedding song.
Jар чакыруу — akyn's song-announcement.
Jарчы — herald.
Jeznay — wind musical instrument.
Jeldirme — a type of akyn's musical-poetic improvisation "terme".
Jigitтер ырлары — youth songs.
Joktoo — memorial lament.
Jolugupgu — akyn's greeting song.
Jomok — fairy tale or legend.
Jomokchu — storyteller.
Jorgo soz — a type of akyn's musical-poetic improvisation "terme".
Joro — traditional party.
Jygach ooz komuz — wooden mouth (oral) musical instrument. Jylaajyn — musical-noise instrument.
Zalkar kuulor — large classical instrumental performances.
Zar zaman — musical-poetic movement of the 19th — early 20th century.
Zikir — musical-poetic religious-ritual genre.
Zuudlak — musical-noise instrument.
Kairyk — musical theme; genre of instrumental performance.
Kairyluu ыры — akyn's song-address.
Kairym aityshuu — musical-poetic dialogue-competition.
Kambarqan — genre of music for komuz; name of the legendary inventor of the komuz.
Karsyldak — percussion musical instrument.
Kezdeshuu — akyn's greeting song.
Kerbez — instrumental and vocal-instrumental genre.
Kernei — wind (horn or metal) signaling musical instrument.
Kerneichi — performer on kernei.
Kereez — will, deathbed instruction.
Ketbuka — legendary singer, komuz player.
Komuz (chertmek) — three-string plucked musical instrument. Komuzchu — performer on komuz.
Konguroo — musical-noise instrument.
Kordoo ыры — akyn's song-reproach.
Koshok — ritual women's lament.
Konul aituu ыры — akyn's song-sympathy.
Kuran okuu — recitation of the holy book Quran (Koran).
Kuttuktoo ыры — akyn's congratulatory song.
Kut tushuu — incantation of magical lead.
Kuudul — folk-professional actor, performer of comedic songs. Kuygen — genre of lyrical song.
Kuu — instrumental performance (general name).
Kyzdar ыры — girls' songs.
Kyz-jigittyn ыры (kyz-jigit) — youth humorous song-dialogue. Kyz uzatuu — ritual wedding song.
Kyl kyak (kyak) — two-stringed bowed musical instrument. Kyakchy — performer on kyak.
Maktoo ыры — akyn's song-praise.
Manaschy — storyteller of the great epic "Manas".
Nasyyat ыры — akyn's song-admonition.
Obon (ovon) — melody, tune, motif.
Obon kuu — instrumental miniature of song origin.
Obonchu — author and performer of tunes.
Okuu aitysh — educational aitysh.
Okuya jонундо ыр — historical song (about events).
Op mayda (temin ыры) — labor song.
Oturush — traditional party.
Oyun ыры — children's game song.
OKYPYY — ritual male or children's lament.
Rubai — Eastern form of quatrain.
Salamdasuu — solo and dialogical genres of akyn's greeting song. Sanat ыры — akyn's song-teaching.
Sarmerden — friendly singing-poetic competition of non-professional type.
Seitekchi — storyteller of the third part of the epic "Manas" — "Seitek".
Seketbay — genre of lyrical song.
Selkinchek — youth singing-game genre "swing".
Semeteich — storyteller of the second part of the epic "Manas" — "Semetei".
Surnai — wooden wind musical instrument.
Surnaiчы — performer on surnai.
Suiuu ыры — lyrical love songs.
Sybyzgy — wind musical instrument.
Tamasha ыры — humorous song.
Takmaza ыры — akyn's song-mockery.
Temin ыры (op mayda) — labor agricultural song.
Temir ooz komuz (temir komuz) — metal mouth (oral) musical instrument.
Terme — akyn's musical-poetic improvisation.
Toy bashtar — ritual wedding song.
Tolgoo — type of tuning string musical instrument; genre of instrumental performance.
Ton chyk — incantation during the making of leather clothing.
Tekme akyn — akyn-improviser.
Uguzi — announcement of death.
Uchurashuu — akyn genre — exchange of greetings.
Uzenгу — musical-noise instrument.
Uylenuu salt ыры — wedding (marriage) ritual songs.
Ulgу ыры — akyn's exemplary song.
Chertmek — old name for komuz.
Choor - wooden or copper wind musical instrument.
Choorchu — performer on choor.
Chopo choor — clay or ceramic wind musical instrument. Chymchykey ыры — children's teasing song.
Shayyr (el shayyry) — representative of professional musical-poetic art of oral tradition.
Shaldyrak — musical-noise instrument.
Sherine — traditional inter-family holiday.
Shyngyrama — genre of music for komuz.
Shyrylдан — men's labor song.
Ыр — song, poem.
Ыр кесе — collective singing competition in the form of a relay.
Ырчы — singer.
Eskeruu (eskermе) — akyn's song-memory.
Note: some letters of the Kyrgyz alphabet have been replaced with Russian ones (o, u, n).
