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(276) duhî spêd-ê li_ser ban-î (AN1:1)
yesterday morning-OBL.F on rooftop-OBL.M
‘Yesterday morning on the rooftop’
In line 24 of Ey Ze’îmê Bê Nivêjê Bê Werar, ‘O Leader Without Prayer and Use,’
Nalbend took liberty to leave off the masculine oblique marker, -î, on the word neseb,
‘ancestry,’ the final noun in a prepositional phrase. The appropriate oblique marker for
grammatical correctness is in parentheses. By leaving off the oblique marker, Nalbend
was able to rhyme neseb with the fourth line of the rest of the poem’s quatrains (not
shown). As well, the syllable count remains at 12 for the line, the line length for the
poem.
(277) ka reḧim însan-ê bê esil u neseb(-î) (AN4:24)
where merciful person-EZ.M without family ties and ancestry
‘Where is mercy, (you) the person without family ties (background) and ancestry.’
In Gerîanek Di Kurdistanê Da, ‘A Walk Through Kurdistan,’ Sindî elected to
omit oblique markers on the feminine nouns alek, ‘corner,’ shown in (278), and
Kurdistan, shown in (279). Leaving off the oblique marker on alek allowed Sindî to
rhyme it with cwanek, ‘a pretty woman,’ at the end of line 3, also shown. While rhyme
seems to be the primary motivator, the line is also left at 7 syllables, the length it needed
to be for the poem. In (279), the motivation for leaving off the oblique is syllable count,
as the line would have had eight syllables if the oblique marker was used on Kurdistan.
(278) min dît li wêrê cwan-ek (BS2:3, 4)
1O see.PST(-3SG) LOC there pretty.woman-INDF
‘I saw a pretty lady there.’
awir di-da-Ø ji alek(-ê)
look IPFV-give.PST-3SG from corner(-OBL.F)
‘She was winking from the corner.’
(279) bu Kurdistan(-ê) mirîd=im (BS2:24)
for Kurdistan(-OBL.F) disciple=COP.PRS.1SG
‘I’m a disciple of Kurdistan.’
Lines 9 and 10 from Sindî’s Bîrewerîa Barzanî Yê Nemir, ‘Memories of Immortal
Barzanî,’ shown in example (280), are also missing oblique markers. In line 9, me―ciḧel
u pîr u jin, 1OP ‘youth and old one and woman,’ is the subject of a past tense transitive