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In the second line, we had multiple options for the words for ‘rest’ and ‘pain,’ and
so the decisions were not difficult. In order to reduce the syllable count, I changed tenahî,
‘rest,’ to Shushi’s suggestion, aram. In the third line of the quatrain, we were left in a
quandary after adding the required feminine oblique ending, -yê, to the final word girî,
‘crying,’ for the syllable count was now too great. I inquired about changing bune spî,
‘become white,’ which was utilizing the directional enclitic (DIR), e, on bun, to simply
bun spî. Shushi replied that people do not always speak the e enclitic, so that would work.
I also asked if there was a difference between the order: bun spî and spî bun. She said that
in this instance, spî sounds nicer before bun, though both are grammatically correct. With
spî before bun, the directional enclitic is not an option. Lastly, in the fourth line, Shushi
recommended using the verb boyax diket, ‘dye.’ This made more sense to her than the
literal translation of the verb sibiẍ diket, ‘paint.’ Boyax diket is the verb used by women
when putting henna on their skin, or for dying cloth.
In the second quatrain, I needed more syllables in the first line and chose to add
the word buhar, ‘spring.’ It seemed an appropriate addition since the blossoms and
flowers of the spring months are the ones that vanish quickly. The addition does not
really take away anything, nor add much, to the overall image of the line, and
corresponds to Boerger’s eighth principle discussed in § 2.2.4.3, which allows for
adjustments in word choices to accomodate the form (2009:17), in this case the number
of syllables per line. Shushi also provided me with the word for ‘wither,’ diwêryin, a
word which was not in my dictionaries. In the second line of the quatrain, I struggled to
find enough syllables. I settled for the use of an idiom, av u av diçin, which I found in the
translation of Hisin Silêvanî’s poem Ew Xanîma Henê, ‘That Woman.’ This decision
accords with Boerger’s sixth principle (1997:38), which allows for the alteration or
insertion of target langauge metaphorical imagery, as long as meaning is preserved. This
idiom is a metaphor for something that quickly ‘disappears’ by falling into a river and