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‘necessary.’ Sometimes, like you said, for example, they’d take the Turkish Kurdish, and,
because of that word’s syllable length or sound, put that word in the poem. So sometimes,
like you said, it’s where one word might have been too long, or you reached 16 (but want
15). They’ll take one word that has the same meaning to reach that 15, or sometimes
they’ll use the abbreviation. You can see for instance in some of the examples when he
(Nalbend) used the months in Arabic. But he’d tweak it so that it fits to his poem. It’s the
same month but written in a different type of form, abbreviated to fit the style of his
poetry. The early poets were really good at this when they wrote in different languages.
And sometimes you couldn’t distinguish the differences. Nalbend also wrote some of
these types of poetry. These were some of their experiences of the early poets and their
knowledge of three, the ones that we know of, three languages, which is Farsi, Arabic
and Kurdish, Turkish. There might’ve been more. This is what they know for sure. This
knowledge of language was kind of like a bakery with dough. However they wanted to
form the dough, they could form their poetry.
EM: For the ruba’iyat, the çar, are there different names for the different qafîas?
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RF: He said if he had more time presently, he’d bring you all the types of qafîa.
Right now he can’t remember. But in the next meeting, he’ll be more than happy to tell
you.
them.
EM: I can see different qafîas. I see but I want to know if there are names for
RF: Next time I’ll bring them for you. 210
209 My present understanding of the word qafîa is that it means ‘rhyme scheme’ or perhaps ‘verse form.’
210 I was not able to meet with Mr. Findî again during this time of research.