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EM: Thank you. Can you describe the different forms you use? The first one was
2 lines. You called it methnawî.
BS: methnawî, yes
EM: Another one you called çuarkî. There are different types of çuarkî.
BS: çuarkî, yes.
EM: Sometimes the first and the third, the second and the fourth. You also
mentioned tercîa band. Can you say something about that and what it means?
BS: Tercîa band is two words. Tercîa means ‘repeating, to repeat something.’ It
is an Arabic word. Band means ‘to tie something’ and it is a Persian and Kurdish word.
Band sometimes means ‘rope.’ It means ‘belt.’ It means ‘arrested man.’ Sometimes it
means ‘slave.’ Sometimes it means a man who is always related to some other man. That
is why in Badinan, we say ez banî. It means ‘I am in your band, I am your servant, I am
your slave, you are my lord.’ Can you imagine the originality of this word?
EM: It expresses humility?
BS: Yes. Tercîa band means when you have to repeat something and to fasten the
last word with the whole line in the poem.
EM: Are there any other forms that you do not use that other poets use?
BS: Actually, I use the Classical way and the Modern way. I use both of them.
EM: Beside methnawi, çuarkî, tercîa band, there are no other names?
BS: There is another way. There was another way. Now nobody uses that way of
writing a poem, which consists of a line of Kurdish―one line using the Kurdish
language, another line using the Arabic or Persian. Melaye Cezîrî used this way in some
poems. I haven’t used it because I try to use only Kurdish. I would say that you only find
a very few non-Kurdish words in my poems. All of my work is written in a pure Kurdish
language. So I didn’t use that style, mixing Arabic and Kurdish language.
EM: Are there any forms that are uniquely Kurdish?