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(205) aman welat, aman welat, bawer bi-k-in xwînxwar=e (CX1:4)
alas region alas region belief IRR-do.IMP.PL terrible=COP.PRS.3SG
dil
heart
‘Alas my home, alas my home―Believe me, (my) heart is terrible.’
Consider also lines 6 and 7 from the same poem, shown in example (206). Line 6
ends with the subject dil. The predicate, naxoş u hem bêzare, ‘is unwell and always
despondent,’ precedes it. In line 7 the pronoun ew, 3D, in two places, is a referent of dil
and in each instance comes after the predicates with attached copulas.
(206) her gav u her êvar-ê min, naxoş u hem (CX1:6)
every morning and every evening-EZ.M 1O, unwell and always
bêzar=e
dil
despondent=COP.PRS.3SG heart
‘Every morning and every evening of mine, the heart is unwell and always
despondent.’
bêzar u pir naxoş=e ew, kinc-ên sîyeh – (CX1:7)
despondent and quite unwell=COP.PRS.3SG 3D, garment-EZ.PL mourning –
gûn 76 – poş=e ew
manner – sorrowful=COP.PRS.3SG it
‘It’s despondent and quite unwell, dressed in garments of mourning; it’s sorrowful.’
Nalbend also took liberty to put the subject after an Adjective Phrase and copula.
The normal word order for line 9 of Xoşe Wekî Cenetê, ˈIt’s Wonderful Like Heaven,’
shown in (207), would have been bihara lê xoş tazeye, literally ‘spring in it nice beautiful
is.’ However, Nalbend, changed the word order so as to utilize the ar ending on the word
bihar, the subject, at the end of the line, rhyming it with darubar, ‘forest,’ and hizar,
‘thousand’ in lines 10 and 11, also shown.
(207) taze=ye lê xoş bihar (AN2:9-11)
beautiful=COP.PRS.3SG in.it nice spring
‘A nice spring in it is beautiful.’
76 I am unsure how kincên sîyeh and gûn fit into the phrases. The translation for gûn is questionable. The
dashes (–) are part of the original text.