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(326) şêr ew=in u sef dirrî-n (AN2:60, 61)
lion 3D=COP.PRS.3PL and line turn.PST-3PL
‘They are lions and they turn in lines.’
şêr ew-in u xurt u mest 132
lion 3D=COP.PRS.3PL and strong and stimulated
‘They are lions and brave and stimulated (intoxicated with strong emotion).’
Nalbend’s poem Duhî Spêdê Liser Banî, ‘Yesterday Morning On The Rooftop,’
contains various kinds of repetitions. In the examples below, the repeated words are
underlined as above. In some lines only one word is repeated, such as, Xudê, ‘God,’ and
xunav, ‘dew,’ in (329) and (330). In other places a number of words are repeated, such as
the phrase ji mêlaka me xûn, ‘from our live blood,’ in (331). Example (327) is an instance
of anadiplosis, the act of repeating the last word or phrase in a line at the beginning of
the next (Adams 1997:115). In (334), another instance of anadiplosis, Nalbend basically
repeated the phrase Xudê da bû, ‘God created,’ but changed the compound verb da bû,
‘created,’ to kir, which means ‘made.’ Note that bela, ‘trouble, problem,’ also appears in
both lines in this example.
(327) me texm-în kir Zuleyxa 133 bû-Ø (AN1:4, 5)
1OP think-1PL do.PST-3SG
‘We thought she was a Zuleyxa.’
Zuleykha COP.PST-3SG
Zuleyxa bu-Ø sîfe hûrî
Zuleykha COP.PST-3SG look-EZ.PL huree
‘It was Zuleykha, the looks of a heavenly wife.’
(328) çû-Ø hal bu min ne-hêla bû-Ø (AN1:16, 17)
go-PST-3SG state for 1O NEG-leave.PRS.3SG COP.PST-3SG
‘She went; left me feeling crazy (high love/sexual emotion).’
ne-hêla bo kes-ê hal-ek
NEG-leave.PRS.3SG for person-EZ.M state-INDF
‘She didn’t leave anyone in peace (made everyone crazy).’
132 Mest can also mean ‘drunk, intoxicated with alcohol.’
133 According to Islamic tradition, Zuleyxa is the name of the Pharoah’s wife, the one who loved the
prophet Joseph.