Magin_Edward-thesis

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(341) mililet-ê Kurd pir wefa=ye sufy-ên dest-ên (BS1:17, 18)
people-EZ.M Kurd so loyal=COP.PRS.3SG Sufi-EZ.PL hands-EZ.PL
te=ne
2O=COP.PRS.3PL
‘Kurdish people are so loyal; they are the Sufis of your hands’
ruh ji êş-an pir sema=ye 141 ‘aşiq u
soul of pain-OBL.PL full dance=COP.PRS.3SG lover and
mest 142 -ên te=ne
stimulated.one-EZ.PL 2O=COP.PRS.3PL
‘The pained soul is full of dancing; they are your lovers and stimulated ones
(intoxicated with strong emotion).’
The two lines previous to the example above, shown in (342), also exhibit a
degree of grammatical parallelism. Both lines contain a four-part noun phrase that takes
up the second half of each line. Each four-part noun phrase is made up of pairs of
opposites. In line 15, the noun phrase consists of çep u rast u jor u jêr, ‘left and right and
up and down,’ a description of the directions from which people came to grieve the loss
of Mustafa Barzanî. The noun phrase in line 16 consists of a description of the people
who were doing the grieving, kal u genc u jin u mêr, ‘old and adolescent and woman and
man.’ The first halves of each line are also structurally parallel. Both lines begin with
noun phrases consisting of two nouns connected by the conjunction u, ‘and.’ Line 15
begins with şînyî u tazî, ‘mourning and condolence;’ line 16 begins with şev u roj, ‘night
and day.’ Both of these are followed by a word meaning ‘people,’ xelkî and gelî (gelî
happens to be in a prepositional phrase, ji gelî), as well as the copula bûn. Hence, the
whole of line 16 is basically grammatically parallel with line 15.
(342) şînyî u tazî ji gel-î bû-n çep u (BS1:15)
mourning and condolence from people-OBL.M COP.PST-3PL left and
rast u jor u jêr
right and up and down
‘There was mourning and condolence from people, from the left to right and up to
down.’
141 Sema here means ‘dance, dancing’ or ‘heaven, arch of heaven/sky’ (Omar 1992).
142 Mest is also the word meaning ‘drunk, intoxicated with alcohol.’