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mundane household affairs. The 'lion' simile, on the other hand,
implies that away from home he is as fearless and daring as a lion.
Both similes, put together, could mean that he is domineered by the
overpowering personality of his wife. The vowel marker shift on the
medial and final consonants of 'fahid' and 'asid', one of the
subtleties of Arabic morphology, changes the word class from noun to
verb. Besides the morphological transformation, the consequential
rhyme placed on the final consonants of the Arabic 'pair' intensifies
the emotional impact of the ST statement.
The sixth wife (TT) said: "If my husband eats, he eats too much
(leaving the dishes empty), and if he drinks he leaves nothing, and if
he sleeps he sleeps alone (away from me) covered in garments and he
does not stretch his hands here and there so as to know bow I fare".
She relates that her husband gulps when he eats, gurgles when he drinks
and shuns sexual intimacy with her when he goes to bed. Her husband's
gluttony, over-drinking (water), and lack of sexual virility constitute
the obligatory meaning centers (0MCCs) in the ST statement. The
informative content of the original message is kept intact in the
translatea version. The emotive effect, however, is considerably
lacking. The consecutive occurrence of end-rhyme on verbs like 'laff',
'shannaff' and 'iltaff' besides the sound they recall of their referent
actions (onomatopoeia) augment the emotive impact of the original
message in a manner unlikely to be achieved in any translation.
External associations could be captured from the above verbs. For
instance, 'laff' could mean that he 'went about the dish with his hand
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