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A Handbook and Reader of Ottoman Arabic

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Esther-Miriam Wagner

II. Reader

34. Ora ve-Simḥa (1917)1

Esther-Miriam Wagner

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Transcription

  • 1 Taken from the book Ora ve-Simha published in Jerba in 1917. I received this book as a present from (...)

Arabic Transcription

  • 2 The binding of Isaac.
  • 3 Evening prayer.
  • 4 Opening of daily evening prayer.
  • 5 Morning prayer.

1Note2 Note3 Note4 Note5

Translation

2After this, the community began to pray the morning prayer. The pious man had an original prayer book in his hand. He began to read the Parasha ha-Aqedah. His son also had the prayer book in his hand, but he began to pray the evening prayer and read with force the opening of the prayer. When his father heard (this), he said to him: “What are you praying? Whereas this is the time for the morning prayer, you are praying the evening prayer.” His son replied to him: “You turned the day upside down for me, and the morning has been brought to the West, and the world has grown dark before our eyes. I began to see the whole world at night not day, and therefore I must pray the opening of the evening prayer. You turned my morning into night on this day, on which you took me with you to prayer and you made me tremble with your words.”

Commentary

3להקל and ̇ דיסחל . The community and the pious man are the subjects in these clauses, so these are clear examples that here and in other places the article is spelled only with lām instead of a ligature of ʾalif and lām.

aṣl

4שאה ‘what’. A contraction of an emphatic particle ha- and Maghrebian .

5The root qʿd is used as an auxiliary verb to express present continuous action.

6The verb baqā is used as an auxiliary verb to express the start of an action.

7The short passage, as well as the whole book from which the excerpt is taken, contains a large range of unusual connectives. For example, bash is used to express ‘so that’.

8ישוהאמ ‘is not’.

Notes

1 Taken from the book Ora ve-Simha published in Jerba in 1917. I received this book as a present from Dr Melonie Schmierer-Lee, who purchased it on Ebay.

2 The binding of Isaac.

3 Evening prayer.

4 Opening of daily evening prayer.

5 Morning prayer.

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