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şev u roj xelk-î girî bû-n kal (BS1:16)
night and day people-OBL.M cry.PRS.PTCP COP.PST-3PL old
u genc u jin u mêr
and adolescent and woman and man
‘Night and day people were crying, old and adolescent, women and men.’
Two other lines in the same poem seem to exhibit an intentional parallel. The
subject of line 9, shown in (343), consists of three nouns, ciḧêl, pîr and jin, ‘young,’
‘old,’ and ‘woman.’ These describe me, 1OP, the pronoun that precedes these nouns. Line
10, also shown, ends with a prepositional phrase containing three nouns, mezar, Înis and
cin, ‘grave,’ ‘(prophet) Înis’ and ‘evil spirit.’ Thus, the part of the structure that is parallel
consists of noun + u + noun + u + noun. While this is a less significant grammatical
parallelism, it does seem clearly intentional on part of the poet. It is an attempt to create
syntactic similarity in conjunction with the phonological similarity of jin and cin.
(343) ayet-a Kursî ji_berkir-Ø me ciḧêl u pîr (BS1:9, 10)
verse-EZ.F Kursî memorize.PST-3SG 1OP young and old
u jin
and woman
‘We―young, old, and women―memorized the Kursî verse.’
me du’a bu-Ø şev u ruj-an ji mezar u Înis u
1OP prayer COP.PST-3SG night and day-OBL.PL from grave and Înis and
cin
evil.spirit
‘We prayed (wished) night and day to grave and (prophet) Înis and evil spirit.’
Lastly, Nalbend’s Kiçkek Me Divêt, ‘We Want A Girl,’ exhibits grammatical
parallelism in lines 23 and 24, shown in (344). The parallelism here is not only
grammatical similarity. It may also be considered antithetically parallel. In line 23, the
poet is stating what the woman wants from the poet. In line 24, the poet, speaking in the
first person plural, is telling the woman what he and other men want from her. The
pronouns, verbs and objects parallel each other across the lines. However, in line 23,
instead of using the 1D pronoun ez with bidem, ‘I give,’ to parallel with tu, 2D, in line 24,
Nalbend chose to use the optional relativizer ku, ‘that,’ as it rhymes with tu.