Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia 5 Voices from by P. Marcel Kurpershoek

By P. Marcel Kurpershoek

Voices from the desolate tract is the 5th and concluding quantity of P. Marcel Kurpershoek’s Corpus Oral Poetry & Narratives from relevant Arabia. the 1st quantity seemed in 1994. within the Preface the writer appears to be like again on his virtually two decades of involvement with Arabian oral tradition. He additionally discusses many of the amazing positive factors of the traditions amassed in those volumes, and their value in the broader political, social, and cultural context of the tribal procedure stretching from Yemen to the Anatolian highlands. An advent is through a consolidated thesaurus, comprising all information gathered and built-in from the glossaries of the former 4 volumes. This intricate word list not just refers back to the transcribed unique texts in Volumes 1-4, however it has additionally been prolonged with many examples originating from corresponding Classical Arabic vocabulary, and extra Western resources. additionally incorporated are the 3 imperative indices to the whole Corpus: the Index of topics, the Index of Tribal Names and the Index of right Names. an inventory of Recordings completes this quantity. the unique recordings of the poets and transmitters, within the order of the broadcast textual content with an outline of the tracks’ contents, could be downloaded as MP3 records from Brill educational Publishers’ site.

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Ma āwī ‘retreat, shelter, abode, resting place’). awa, yāwi ‘to awiyy – bj 7 have mercy, consideration for’ <674> (CA awā, ya wī l- ‘to be compassionate for, feel pity for’). awiyy awiyy, away = ayy w-allah an exclamatory particle, expressing admiration and praise Su, i, 114; iii, 132; JuA, 53 . ] bal (b ) bāl ‘heart, mind’; hawa al-bāl ‘sweetheart, heartthrob, darling; fancy, pleasure’ <292> (CA bāl ‘state, condition; heart, mind’). g. o. to remain as his guest)’ (CA batta ‘to cut off, sever’; batta alāq al-mar ah ‘he made the divorce of his wife absolute so as to cut her off from returning’; batta yamīnah ‘he had his oath take effect, he executed it’).

A - āni ‘the rest, the other(s)’ <387>. ma niy ‘double’ <9/2> (CA ma nīy ‘double, folded’). anwah ‘coffee dregs boiled for a second time and offered to persons of lesser importance’. anwi ‘my wish, vow, curse’ (cf. CA anā adruh lit. ‘he folded his breast’, ‘to conceal enmity, hatred’). 30 wb – wr ma nāh ‘waist, middle’ <17/8> (CA mi nāh ‘folded middle part’); mi āni ‘middle parts; folds; joints’ Musil, 131 <19/11,33/30>; al-fā ir umm al-mi āni ‘a big-waisted large she-camel’ <121,122>; wla hūb min sumwa kbār al-mi āni explained as wla hūb min xa w al-gibāyil āt fxū in kibīrah ‘he does not hail from one of the big tribes with many subdivisions’ <516> (CA mi nāh folded middle part’).

Bāri{ ‘excellent, outstanding, superior’ <4/17>. ) ‘uncovered, without veils’ <6/28>. brg barrag ‘to think, ponder, investigate’ <6/3>; barrig bi-dārik gabil ma tittihim jārik ‘search your own house before accusing your neighbour (of theft)’ {Ubūdī, 260; ma fi tabrīg ‘there is no doubt’ JuA, 106 (CA barraqa ba arah ‘he looked hard, intently’). tibārag ‘to flash, glitter, shine,’ inf. n. tibēri‹ . barg {āmin ‘born in the same year of she-camels covered by the same stallion’ <7/14>. th.

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