Lucía Andrea
Illanes Albornoz
🏳️⚧️ 𒊩 𒈨 𒊬𒊏 𒌓 𒁲𒆷 𒂊𒀀 🏳️⚧️
You have abandoned me
Terki mi kir[1]
Terki mi kir,[1]
ella xwdi, erman erman,
dilberi min, dilberi min
Daqek danî yari, can, cîgeri min
Xewer newû,
ella xwdi, erman erman,
je yari min
Bû xerawo,
mal xeraw,
dilberi min
Kemandari bê murwet,
bir dili min
Balaxane,
erman erman, erman erman,
xişt o nîme,
xişt o nîme
Feki yari hamdile,
le Golnari[2] jīme
...[3]
Bû xerawo,
mal xeraw,
dilberi min
Kemandari bê murwet,
bir dili min
Type of poem: Folk song based on a real event, sung by Sīmā Bīnā
Name of poet: (unknown)
Region of poet: North Ḫorāsān, Īrān
Era: (unknown)
Language: Kūrmānjī Kurdish, specifically Ḫorāsāni Kurdish
You have abandoned me
O Lord, O God, my longing, sorrow
beloved mine, O my heart's love!
You burnt a searing mark, my love, into my dearest heart.
No news has come, has come to me,
O God, O Lord, my hope, my sigh
from whom I love, from my beloved!
I'm undone!
Home ruint!
O love of mine!
The heartless bowman without mercy
wounds my heart!
My room upstairs, my upstairs room!
my aim, my pain, my goal, my grief
is now a brick and but a half
is one mere brick and then a half!
O the lips of my heart's pair,
of Golnāri[2], my verdant spring
...[3]
I'm undone!
Home ruint!
O dearest mine!
The heartless bowman without mercy
wounds my heart!
[2] The name of the poet's beloved: Golnāri, pomegrenate flower
[3] This line, in Sīmā Bīnā's rendition, is not found in any variety of any textual version of this folk song and likely improvised from a separate "poetic repertory". Furthermore, as appears to be the case with the preceding line as well as this one, regional dialectal variations in pronunciation may or may not enter into this as well. Hence, it is left out.
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