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dil-ê bi xwîn
heart-EZ.M with blood
‘I can’t go near Xanî and open for (him) my heart with blood (sadness).’
nabitin bi-ç-im Dêrsîm-ê bi-kelêş-im (BS4:46)
not.allowed IRR-go.PRS-1SG Derseem-OBL.F IRR-break.body.PRS-1SG
dil-ê bi evîn
heart-EZ.M with love
‘I can’t go to Derseem and break in two pieces my heart with love.’
In line 12 of the same poem, the object cerg u sî, ‘liver and lung,’ comes after the
verb piçandin, ‘frightened.’ In this case, Sindî must have had some pragmatic or poetic
reason for placing the object after the verb. The line could have been written with normal
constituent order, still ending with the conjunction yan, ‘or,’ as the conjunction is being
used on the sentence-level, to connect the sentence that follows in line 13 (not shown).
(218) lurîn-a gurg-a li nîv şev-an piçand-in (BS4:12)
sound-EZ.F wolf-OBL-PL in middle night-OBL.PL frighten.PST-3PL
cerg u sî yan 83
liver and lung or
‘In the middle of the nights, the howling of wolves frightened the liver and lung or’
Nalbend also used SVO order in a number of lines in Kiçkek Me Divêt, ‘We Want
A Girl.’ In line 5, shown in (219), the object têşt u şîva, ‘breakfast and dinner,’ is at the
end of the line, after the verb bidet, ‘gives,’ and the recipient me, 3OP. The entire poem
only rhymes on the even numbered lines; hence, Nalbend must have had some reason
other than end rhyme for this constituent order.
(219) gava ko bi-d-et me têşt u şîv-a (AN5:5)
when that IRR-give.PRS-3SG 1OP breakfast and dinner-OBL.PL
‘When she gives us breakfasts and dinners.’
In the first line of (220), from the same poem, the object, mirç u maça, ‘kisses and louder
kisses,’ comes after the verb, bidem, ‘give,’ and the recipient, te, 2O. In the following
line, the object, zixt u xiştî (see footnote concerning the translation), also comes after the
83 Seeing the conjunction yan, ‘or,’ at the end of a line in poetry is quite uncommon. However, in Deyka
Dalyayê’s Ji Nazên Te Xerîbim, a prose poem, there are many lines ending with the conjunction u, ‘and.’