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About the story
What’s with this “Wren” thing?
   The oldest extant version of the fable we are presenting here appeared in 1913 in the first volume of a two-volume anthology of Low Saxon folktales (Plattdeutsche Volksmärchen “Low German Folktales”) collected by Wilhelm Wisser (1843–1935). Read more ...

اللغة العربية
Luġah ‘arabiyyah

Arabic


Listen to this translation (with native Lebanese pronunciation):

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Translation: Manal Guindi (), Mohammad Suleiman ()
& Reinhard F. Hahn

Location: Cairo, Egypt; Greater Manchester, England, UK; Seattle, USA

Narration: Ayman AlDayeh (ايمن الضايع), Beirut, Lebanon; Seattle, USA

Transliteration (Literary Arabic): Reinhard F. Hahn & Mohammad Suleiman ()

Language information: [Click]Click here for different versions. >




T-taa’iru n-nimnimah

Kaana li-taa’iri n-nimnimati ‘ushshan saghiiran fii ’ahadi ’arkaani l-haziirah. Wa dhaata yawmin kharaja ’l-’abawaani bahthan ‘ani ta‘aami, wa tarakaa ’s-sighaara wahdahum fi ’l-‘ushsh.

Ba‘da fatratin qasiiratin ‘aala ’t-taa’ru ’l-’abu ’ila ’l-‘ushshi wa bi-mujarradin an dakhala saaha muta‘ajjaban mukhaatiban sighaaruhuu: Maa haadha-alladhii ’araa? Shakal ’al-makaani yuuhaa bi-’annakum ta‘arradtum li-i‘tidaa’in khatiirin ’athnaa’a ghayaabii.

Fa-radda ’s-sighaaru bi-khawfin: na‘am yaa ’abii! Mundhu daqaa’iqa qaliilatin jaa’a ’ila ’l-‘ushshi makhluuqun dakhamun, shakluhuu mukhiifun, wa lahuu ‘aynaani kabiirataani, wa ’akhadha yahdiqu fi ’l-‘ushshi bi-‘aynayhii, hattaa ’innanaa khifnaa minhuu jiddaa. Fa-qaala ’t-taa’iru l-abu mu’akkidan: bi-’t-ta’kiidi haadha ’l-maara ’araahuu bi-‘aynii ’al-’aan. Wa ’ayna ta‘taqiduuna ’annahuu dhahab? ’Ajaaba s-sighaaru: Ra’aynaahuu yadhhabu fii ’ittijaahi ’l-ghaabah. Fa-’ajaabu l-’abu wa huwa yahummu bi-’t-tayaraani: Laa taqliquu yaa sighaarii, ’ibquu ’antum hunaa, wa sa-’adhhabu ’ana ’ilayhii li-’ulaqqinahuu darsan lan yansaahuu ’abadaa.

Wa farada taa’iru ’n-nimnimatu janaahaihii wa taara khaarija ’l-‘ushshi mutajjihan nahwa ’l-ghaabah. Wa ba‘da fatrati tahliiqin wa ‘inda ’awwali mun‘attafin lamaha ’asadan, fa-qtaraba minhuu jiddan duuna ’an tatawallada minhuu ’ayyu mashaa‘ira khawfin wa law li-lahzah. Bal ’istaqarra ‘alaa zahrihii wa saaha fiihii, yuubikhuhuu bi-shiddah: ’Anta ’ayyuha ’l-makhluuqu, ma-’lladhii ’ataa bika ’ilaa baytii wa ja‘alaka tukhiifu ’awlaadii bi-haadhihi ’t-tariiqah?

Laakinna ’l-’asada lam ya‘urruhuu ’intibaahan, wa-stamarra fii sayrihii qadaman ka-maa law ’anna shay’an lam yahduth, ’al-’amru ’alladhii ja‘ala taa’ira ’n-nimnimata yastashiitu ghadaban, fa-’izdaada fii tawbiikhi ’l-’asadi bi-suuratin ’ashadda wa bi-lahjatin muhtaddatin, qaala lahuu: ’Isma‘ yaa haadhaa: laysa laka mina ’l-’aana fa-saa‘idan sha’nun bi-baytii ’aw bi-’awlaadii, wa ’idhaa shaawarta ‘aqlaka wa fakarta fii ’an ta’tiya ’ilaa baytii thaaniiyan … fa-sa-tu‘arridu nafsaka …’ana laa’ ’uriidu ’an ’af‘ala haadhaa, wa-laakin sa-taraa … wa-rafa‘a ’t-taa’iru ’ihdaa rijlaihii li-fawqa wa saaha fi ’l-’asadi: sa-’ahtimu zahraka bi-rijlii fii thaaniiyah!

Wa ba‘da maa qaala haadhaa, taara ‘aa’idan ’ilaa ‘ushshihii, wa fi ’l-‘ushshi qaala li-sighaarihii: ’Awlaadu, ’al-yawma laqqana ’abuukum haadha ’l-’asada ’l-la‘iina darsan qaasiiyan, wa lan yajru’a ba‘da dhaalika ‘ala ’l-‘awdati ’ilaa hunaa thaaniiyaa.


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