Egyptian Arabic Curriculum — Grade 10, Sirat Antara (سيرة عنترة) — Page 20

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Line-by-line translation · المعاني

لَكَ مَا تَقُولَانِ وَمَا يَقُولُ لَهُمَا نِسَاءُ عَبْسٍ؟

What do you both say, and what do the women of Abs say to them?

فَصَاحَ عَنْتَرَةُ: لَا تُرَاوِغِينِي هَذِهِ الْمَرَّةَ، وَقُولِي لِي صِدْقًا.

Antarah shouted: Do not evade me this time, and tell me the truth.

أَمَا قُلْتِ لِي يَوْمًا إِنَّ شَدَّادًا أَبِي؟

Did you not tell me once that Shaddad is my father?

أَمَا قُلْتِ لِي إِنَّنِي مِنْ صُلْبِهِ وَإِنَّنِي عَنْتَرَةُ بْنُ شَدَّادٍ؟

Did you not tell me that I am his flesh and blood, and that I am Antarah ibn Shaddad?

أَلَا تَذْكُرِينَ يَوْمَ جِئْتُ إِلَيْكِ أَبْكِي وَأَنَا صَبِيٌّ أَشْكُو إِلَيْكِ أَنَّهُمْ يُعَيِّرُونَنِي بِكِ فَقُلْتِ لَا تَحْفِلْ بِهِمْ فَإِنَّكَ ابْنُ شَدَّادٍ؟

Do you not remember the day I came to you crying as a boy, complaining that they taunt me because of you, and you said: Do not care about them, for you are the son of Shaddad?

فَقَالَتْ زَبِيبَةُ مُنْدَفِعَةً: نَعَمْ أَذْكُرُ ذَلِكَ وَهُوَ حَقٌّ.

Zabibah replied, rushing: Yes, I remember that, and it is the truth.

أَيْ وَلَدِي إِنِّي مَا أَزَالُ أَذْكُرُكَ طِفْلًا وَأَنْتَ تَحْبُو مَرَحًا ضَاحِكًا تَعْبَثُ بِالْكِلَابِ وَالْحُمْلَانِ وَتَنْدَفِعُ عَنِيفًا كَأَنَّكَ فَتًى يَافِعٌ، وَأَذْكُرُكَ صَبِيًّا تَجْبِذُ فَصِيلَ النَّاقَةِ كَأَنَّكَ قِطٌّ يُدَاعِبُ فَأْرًا.

Oh my son, I still remember you as a child, crawling joyfully, laughing, playing with dogs and lambs, and rushing about as if you were already a youth; I remember you as a boy pulling at a camel's foal like a cat teasing a mouse.

وَأَذْكُرُكَ فَتًى تَهُزُّ الْحَرْبَةَ كَمَا كَانَ يَهُزُّهَا خَالُكَ وَجَدُّكَ.

I remember you as a young man brandishing a spear just as your uncle and grandfather used to.

وَهَذَا أَنْتَ قَدْ كَبِرْتَ يَا وَلَدِي حَتَّى صِرْتَ فَتَى الْفِتْيَانِ وَأَشْجَعَ الشُّجْعَانِ وَفَارِسَ عَبْسٍ كُلِّهَا.

And here you are, grown up, my son, until you have become the finest of youths, the bravest of the brave, and the knight of all Abs.

ثُمَّ وَضَعَتْ رَأْسَهَا بَيْنَ كَفَّيْهَا وَأَخَذَتْ تَبْكِي فَلَانَ عَنْتَرَةُ وَقَالَ يَسْتَعْطِفُهَا: إِنَّ قَلْبِي يَتَمَزَّقُ وَالْغَيْظَ يَنْفَجِرُ بِي.

Then she buried her face in her hands and began to cry, so Antarah turned to her, pleading: My heart is tearing apart and rage is exploding within me.

فَقَالَتْ زَبِيبَةُ: يَا عَنْتَرَةُ إِنَّ قَلْبِي لَا يَحْمِلُ مِنَ الْأَحْيَاءِ صُورَةً أَحَبَّ مِنْ صُورَتِكَ وَأَرَاكَ تَنْظُرُ إِلَيَّ كَمَا يَنْظُرُ إِلَيَّ هَؤُلَاءِ كُلُّهُمْ: أَبُوكَ وَأَعْمَامُكَ وَآبَاءُ أَعْمَامِكَ.

Zabibah said: Oh Antarah, there is no one among the living whose image is dearer to my heart than yours, yet I see you looking at me just as they all do: your father, your uncles, and your father's brothers.

فَصَاحَ عَنْتَرَةُ: تَقُولِينَ أَبِي وَأَعْمَامِي؟ أَتُعِيدِينَ ذَلِكَ عَلَى سَمْعِي؟

Antarah shouted: You say my father and my uncles? Do you repeat that to me?

فَقَالَتْ زَبِيبَةُ: نَعَمْ أَبُوكَ وَأَعْمَامُكَ، أَلَمْ أَقُلْ ذَلِكَ لَكَ مِنْ قَبْلُ؟

Zabibah said: Yes, your father and your uncles; did I not tell you that before?

إِنَّهُمْ يَقُولُونَ لِي كُلَّمَا رَأَوْنِي: قُومِي يَا زَبِيبَةُ إِلَى هَذَا الْوِعَاءِ فَاحْمِلِيهِ، أَوْ إِلَى هَذِهِ الشَّاةِ فَاحْلِبِيهَا.

Whenever they see me, they say: Get up, Zabibah, take this vessel, or go milk that sheep.

وَمَا كَانَ يَنْبَغِي لَكَ أَنْ تَكُونَ مِثْلَهُمْ.

You should not be like them.

فَلَسْتُ أَمَامَ نَفْسِي زَبِيبَةَ الْأَمَةِ - إِنَّنِي أَنَا الْحُرَّةُ الْحَبَشِيَّةُ (تَانَا) ابْنَةُ (مِيجُو) وَلَنْ أَكُونَ سِوَى الْحُرَّةِ (تَانَا) ابْنَةِ مِيجُو.

For in my own eyes, I am not Zabibah the slave—I am the free Abyssinian Tana, daughter of Miju, and I will be nothing but the free Tana, daughter of Miju.

وَكَانَ عَنْتَرَةُ يَسْمَعُ قَوْلَهَا مُطْرِقًا، وَيَزْأَرُ زَئِيرًا مَكْتُومًا؛ وَتَعْتَرِيهِ بَيْنَ حِينٍ وَحِينٍ هَزَّةٌ تَنْفُضُهُ نَفْضًا.

Antarah listened to her with his head bowed, his breath coming in a muffled roar, while a shudder shook him from time to time.

فَلَمَّا انْتَهَتْ أُمُّهُ مِنْ قَوْلَهَا عَادَتْ إِلَى الْبُكَاءِ فَقَالَ عَنْتَرَةُ فِي شِبْهِ صَيْحَةٍ: إِنَّكِ تَقُولِينَ عَنْ شَدَّادٍ وَإِخْوَتِهِ إِنَّهُمْ أَبِي وَأَعْمَامِي وَمَعَ ذَلِكَ فَإِنَّ كُلَّ مَنْ يَلْقَانِي مِنْهُمْ لَا يُسَمِّينِي إِلَّا عَبْدًا.

When his mother finished, she returned to her weeping, and Antarah said in a near-shout: You say that Shaddad and his brothers are my father and my uncles, yet everyone among them who meets me calls me nothing but a slave.

أَلَسْتِ أَنْتِ الَّتِي أَتَيْتِ بِي إِلَى الْحَيَاةِ، وَأَنْتِ أَعْرَفُ النَّاسِ بِمَوْلِدِي؟ وَحَقِّ مَنَاةَ لَوْ كُنْتِ حُرَّةً.

Are you not the one who brought me into this life, and are you not the one who knows my birth best? By the right of Manat, if only you were free.

وَمَا كَادَ يَنْطِقُ بِالْكَلِمَةِ الْأَخِيرَةِ حَتَّى صَاحَتْ بِهِ زَبِيبَةُ فِي حَنَقٍ: وَيْلَكَ يَا عَنْتَرَةُ إِنَّكَ فَظٌّ عَنِيفٌ وَلَا تُحِسُّ لِي رَحْمَةً.

He had barely spoken the last word when Zabibah shouted at him in fury: Woe to you, Antarah, you are rude and violent, and you have no mercy for me.

إِنَّنِي أَمْقُتُ قَوْمَكَ وَمَا يَقُولُونَ وَأَمْقُتُ كِبْرِيَاءَهُمْ وَجَهْلَهُمْ وَأَمْقُتُ هَذِهِ الْآلِهَةَ الصَّمَّاءَ الَّتِي يُقْسِمُونَ بِهَا.

I loathe your people and what they say, I loathe their arrogance and their ignorance, and I loathe these deaf gods they swear by.

لَقَدْ عَرَفْتُ قَوْمًا غَيْرَهُمْ وَدِينًا غَيْرَ دِينِهِمْ، هُوَ دِينُ الْمَسِيحِ، وَاسْمًا أَحَبَّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ هَذَا الِاسْمِ الَّذِي يُنَادُونَنِي بِهِ.

I have known other people and another religion—the religion of Christ—and I have a name dearer to me than this one they call me by.

Vocabulary · المفردات (46 verbs · 64 nouns)

• قَالَ — to say
• صَاحَ — to shout
• رَاوَغَ — to evade
• ذَكَرَ — to remember
• جَاءَ — to come
• بَكَى — to cry
• شَكَا — to complain
• عَيَّرَ — to taunt
• حَفَلَ — to care
• اِنْدَفَعَ — to rush
• حَبَا — to crawl
• عَبَثَ — to play
• جَبَذَ — to pull
• دَاعَبَ — to tease
• هَزَّ — to shake
• كَانَ — to be
• كَبُرَ — to grow up
• صَارَ — to become
• وَضَعَ — to place
• أَخَذَ — to begin
• اِسْتَعْطَفَ — to seek sympathy
• تَمَزَّقَ — to tear
• اِنْفَجَرَ — to explode
• حَمَلَ — to carry
• نَظَرَ — to look
• أَعَادَ — to repeat
• رَأَى — to see
• حَلَبَ — to milk
• اِنْبَغَى — to be necessary
• سَمِعَ — to hear
• أَطْرَقَ — to lower one's head
• زَأَرَ — to roar
• اِعْتَرَى — to afflict
• نَفَضَ — to shake off
• اِنْتَهَى — to finish
• عَادَ — to return
• لَقِيَ — to meet
• سَمَّى — to name
• أَتَى — to come
• عَرَفَ — to know
• كَادَ — to be on the verge of
• نَطَقَ — to speak
• أَحَسَّ — to feel
• مَقَتَ — to hate
• أَقْسَمَ — to swear
• نَادَى — to call
• مَرَّة — time
• صِدْق — truth
• أَب — father
• صُلْب — loins
• يَوْم — day
• صَبِيّ — boy
• حَقّ — truth
• وَلَد — son
• طِفْل — child
• مَرَح — joy
• كَلْب — dog
• حَمَل — lamb
• فَتًى — youth
• يَافِع — adolescent
• فَصِيل — young camel
• نَاقَة — female camel
• قِطّ — cat
• فَأْر — mouse
• حَرْبَة — short spear
• خَال — maternal uncle
• جَدّ — grandfather
• فِتْيَان — youths
• شُجْعَان — brave men
• فَارِس — knight
• رَأْس — head
• كَفّ — palm
• قَلْب — heart
• غَيْظ — rage
• أَحْيَاء — living beings
• صُورَة — copy, image
• عَمّ — paternal uncle
• سَمْع — hearing
• وِعَاء — vessel
• شَاة — sheep
• أَمَة — female slave
• حُرَّة — free
• حَبَشِيَّة — Abyssinian woman
• ابْنَة — daughter
• زَئِير — roar
• حِين — time
• هَزَّة — shudder
• نَفْض — shaking
• أُمّ — mother
• بُكَاء — crying
• صَيْحَة — cry
• أَخ — brother
• عَبْد — slave
• حَيَاة — life
• نَاس — people
• مَوْلِد — birth
• حَنَق — fury
• رَحْمَة — mercy
• كِبْرِيَاء — arrogance
• جَهْل — ignorance
• آلِهَة — gods
• دِين — religion
• مَسِيح — Christ
• اسْم — name
• عَنِيف — harsh
• أَخِيرَة — last
• مَكْتُوم — hidden; concealed; suppressed
• مُنْدَفِعَة — rushing
• قَوْم — people
• ضَاحِك — laughing