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(215) dê gurîk-im vî can-î (BS2:68, 79)
will sacrifice.PRS-1SG this soul-OBL.M
‘I will sacrifice this soul,’
neman u yan Barzanî 81
to.be.destroyed and or Barzanî
‘Either to die or be with Barzanî.’
(216) dar-ek di dest biçwîk-a (BS2:31, 32)
stick-INDF in hand child-OBL.PL
‘A stick in children’s hands.’
pê di-kir-in yarî-a bîk-a (BS2:32)
with.3OM IPFV-play.PST-3PL game-EZ.F doll-OBL.PL
‘They were playing doll games with it.’
In line 45 of Dergehê Jîn U Hîvî Ya, ‘The Door of Life and Hopes,’ Sindî put the
object dilê bi xwîn, ‘heart with blood,’ at the end of line 45, rhyming xwîn, ‘blood,’ with
Zîn, a fictional character, Xanîqîn, a city, and evîn, ‘love,’ in lines 43, 44 and 46.
(217) nabitin bu me tewaf-a ew cih-ê lê Mem u (BS4:43)
not.allowed for 1OP worship-EZ.F 3D place-EZ.M in.3OM Mem and
Zîn 82
Zîn
‘We can’t go and worship the place of Mem and Zeen.’
nabitin evro bi-bur-în ji tuxîb-ê Xanîqîn (BS4:44)
not.permitted today IRR-pass.PRS-2PL from danger-EZ.M Xanîqeen
‘It’s impossible today for us to pass from the danger of Xanîqeen.’
nabitin bi-ç-im nik Xanî bu vek-im (BS4:45)
not.allowed IRR-go.PRS-1SG near Xanî for (him) open.PRS-1SG
81 According to my consultant, Sindî changed a common Bahdini idiom, yan Kurdistan yan neman,
substituting Barzanî for Kurdistan. He also said, “Sometimes people use it as a joke and put a word in
between,” a word other than Barzanî. In this example, Sindî not only changed the word order but also used
the word u, which is a conjunction meaning ‘and.’ Somehow my consultant still understood from the line
Sindî’s intended meaning. According to Chyet, neman is the infinitive form of the word that means ‘to be
destroyed’ or ‘to perish.’
82 Mem and Zîn are the central characters of one of the most famous pieces of Kurdish literature, Mem U
Zîn, written by Ehmed Xanî, who is mentioned in line 45 of Sindî’s poem.