Barwar: The Tale of Rustam (2)

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Geoffrey Khan	Khan, Geoffrey. The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Barwar. 3 vols. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2008, vol. 3	Bənyamən Bənyamən

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0:00	xa-tuníṯa ṱ-íla ṯáya l-bàliˈ y-amríwala Rustắmo ʾu-Zàlo.ˈ Rústam brṓn-t Zā̀l-wewa.ˈ ʾánna xákma náše gabbàre-wɛwaˈ xɛlàne.ˈ paxrèyˈ xɛlàne-wɛwaˈ ʾu-gòṛe-wɛwa.ˈ gabbàre.ˈ ʾáp-xa lá-mṣaya biyèy.ˈ ʾɛ̀-gaˈ Rustắmo mtánɛ mə́nne y-ámri ʾɛ́-gət damə̀xwa,ˈ ṭḷaṯà yomáṯaˈ ʾu-ṭḷaṯà lɛlăwáṯa háwe dmìxa,ˈ là qayə́mwa,ˈ là ṛayə́šwa.ˈ bábe dìye,ˈ Zā̀l,ˈ ʾíṯwale xà-našaˈ maqrə́ṭwa káwse dìyeˈ y-amríle ḥallàqa.ˈ tíwɛle Zàloˈ qam-tắrət qáṣre dìyeˈ ʾo-ḥallàqaˈ hóle múṯyəlla xa-semàltaˈ múttəlla baṯrə̀t rušáne díye.ˈ ma-t-wéwa gòṛa,ˈ ḥalláqa là maṭyáwa ʾíḏe gu-réšət Zálo.ˈ mattúwa semálta gu-xáṣe díye ʾu-y-asə̀qwaˈ gu-réšə semàltaˈ maqrə́ṭwa káwsət Zàlo.ˈ qəm-qayə́ṣle káwse dìyeˈ xírre gu-réšət Zàloˈ ʾíṯwa šaqyàṯaˈ brinàne,ˈ gòṛe rába.ˈ mə́re ṭla-Zàlo:ˈ Zàloˈ ʾánna mòdila gu-réšux,ˈ ʾánna šaqyàṯa.ˈ módila ʾánna brinàne?ˈ mə̀reˈ hadíya quṣ-kàwsi!ˈ ʾaw-lɛ̀le šúlux.ˈ mə́re là-b-alaha.ˈ ʾən-lá galə́tli ʾánna šaqyáṯa módi gu-rèšux,ˈ ʾánna brinánət mòdilaˈ w-ʾáti hátxa gabbàra,ˈ ʾu-ʾɛ́ni hátxa twíra rèšuxˈ wíḏa brináne gu-rèšux,ˈ mə́re ʾən-là galə́tli,ˈ ʾána lɛ̀-qɛṣənne káwsux.ˈ zədyále maqáṣte dìyeˈ mə́re lá qɛṣə̀nne.ˈ kàze.ˈ qúṣli rèši!ˈ gúda máre naṯyàṯɛle.ˈ mə́re là-b-alaha,ˈ lá qɛṣə́nne rèšux,ˈ ʾən-qaṭlə̀tli.ˈ là qɛṣə́nne káwsux,ˈ ʾə́lla ṱ-amrə́tli ʾánna ma-brinànela gu-réšux.ˈ mə̀reˈ ṱ-amrə̀nnuxˈ de-hàyyoˈ tu-tìwa.ˈ mə́re ʾána băyə́nwala xa-bràta,ˈ brátət ʾAprəsyàwˈ t-fə̀llən ʾáṯṛa,ˈ xa-ʾáṯṛa rə̀ḥqa-wewa.ˈ mə́re y-azə́nwa mɛṯoyə̀lla,ˈ lɛ̀ yawíwala ʾə́lli.ˈ y-azə́nwa b-xɛ́la mɛṯòyəllaˈ palšə̀xwa.ˈ ʾíṯwaley ʾáp-ʾani náše ferə́sse ʾu-gabbàre.ˈ palšə̀xwa.ˈ ʾu-ʾánna brináne kúlla d-àn šarrăwáṯaˈ t-maxɛ̀waˈ murzăwáṯa gu-rèši.ˈ ʾu-ríqən ʾə̀ṯya.ˈ bráta làn-məṣya ṱ-in-múṯyəlla.ˈ Rustắmo bróne dìyeˈ hóle gu-bɛ́ṯa ṛìšle,ˈ qəm-šămèla ʾáyya ṣáwṯa.ˈ ʾimə-šmiyále kríble ràba.ˈ sab-ʾáp-ʾaw rába ferə̀ssa-wewaˈ ʾu-xɛlàna.ˈ čú-naša gu-d-o-ʾáṯṛa là-maṣe bíye.ˈ mə́re nə́mu ʾíṯ xa-náša ferə́ssa máṣe táwər réšət bàbi?ˈ ʾu-plíṭɛle b-kɛ̀rba.ˈ ʾímə ṱ-ìle plíṭa kríba kríba,ˈ rúše díye qíṯɛle b-yaṣílət tằra,ˈ tlìxɛle gúda.ˈ ma-t-wéwa zàxma,ˈ gúda tlìxle.ˈ plìṭle.ˈ Zálo mə́re ṭla-ḥallàqaˈ xzèlux!ˈ lá-məri gúda máre naṯyàṯɛle?ˈ hóle šmíyəlla Rustằmo,ˈ ṱ-áwəḏ fə̀tne.ˈ Rustắmo mə́re ṭla-bábe dìyeˈ gắrəg ʾámrət ʾay-bráta ʾɛ̀kɛla.ˈ nə́mu ʾíṯ xa-náša máṣe táwər réšət Zálo ʾu-Rustắmo sàxi?ˈ mə́re bábi hā́l ʾu-qə́ṣṣət hàtxɛla.ˈ kúlla tunìṯaˈ d-ɛ-bráta qəm-mtanèlaˈ ʾu-ʾáṯṛa ʾɛ̀kɛle,ˈ ʾu-ʾɛ̀ni-wewa twírəlle réše díye.ˈ Rustắmo kríbɛle ràba-wˈ qìmɛle,ˈ plìṭɛle.ˈ ʾə́ṯyɛle zàla-wˈ šqíləlle súse dìyeˈ ʾu-də́ryəlle sárga l-xàṣe-wˈ gùrza.ˈ ʾɛ́-ga ʾíṯwa gúrza m-geb-sɛ̀pa.ˈ xa-qɛ́sa rìxɛle,ˈ gu-réše díye gùttɛle,ˈ qìrɛle.ˈ y-ámriwala gùrza.ˈ ʾáy-ži šqìləlla.ˈ čú-naša lá-mṣewa taqə́lwala ʾa-gùrzət Rustằmo.ˈ ʾarbí baṭmáne yúqra dìya-wewa.ˈ yáʿni záwda m-əmmà-kiloʾeˈ yúqra d-ɛ-gúrze dìye-wawa.ˈ qímle zàla,ˈ zìlleˈ tíwa xāṣ-sùsa,ˈ zála plíṭle m-màṯa.ˈ ʾítwale xa-xurzàya,ˈ bɛ́ṯe díye šə́ttət màṯa-wewa.ˈ šə́mme díye Bèžəm-wewa.ˈ qəm-xazéle xále díye Rustắmo zàla.ˈ mə́re xáli lɛ̀kɛt zála?ˈ mə́re ʾáw lɛ̀le šúlux.ˈ Béžəm módile wàḏa?ˈ hóle dwáqəlle réšət xórta makyòpəlle,ˈ yalúnke zóre hola-ṯáya ʾu-sáqa b-à-xorta,ˈ marpòyəlle réšət xórta,ˈ xórta hóla zyàna,ˈ ʾan-yalúnke zóre kùt-xa hóle zdáyəlle bar-ḏá-gotət dúnye.ˈ Rustắmo mə̀reˈ xwàrza!ˈ lá-wuḏ hàtxaˈ qṭúl ʾanna-bnónə náše kùlla.ˈ mə́re lìtla xámˈ lɛ̀kɛt zála?ˈ mə́re ʾána ṱ-ázən ʾítli šùla.ˈ ʾáti si-bɛ̀ṯa!ˈ mə́re là xáli.ˈ ṱ-áṯən mə̀nnux.ˈ káze qlùbˈ mə́re là.ˈ hár ṱ-áṯən mə̀nnux.ˈ qímɛle šlìxəlla xórtaˈ múttəlla rəš-rúše-w zìlɛle.ˈ xírre Rustằmoˈ qəm-xazéle ʾa-xórta šlíxəlla múttəlla rəš-rùše.ˈ mə́re ʾáwwa balàyɛleˈ yan-ʾáwwa dáwəq wàjju.ˈ ʾu-ʾáwwa ṭəfl-zòra-wewa b-šə́mma.ˈ ʾu-zìlela.ˈ zílela xá-yoma tré ʾu-ṭḷàṯa,ˈ zíle dmíxela xà-dukṯa.ˈ čèlay,ˈ dmíxlay xa-dúkṯa.ˈ béna Rustắmo ʾɛ́-gət dàməxˈ ṭḷaṯà yomáṯaˈ ʾu-ṭḷaṯá lɛlăwáṯa y-áwe dmíxa lɛ-ṛàyəš.ˈ mə́re ṭla-Béžəm xwarzáye dìyeˈ ʾáti də-la-dàmxeti,ˈ ʾána dámxən làxxaˈ t-lá-ʾaṯi genàweˈ ganwìle súsa.ˈ mə́re spày.ˈ Béžəm hóle tìwaˈ ḥắras-ile t-xále dìye,ˈ ʾu-ʾá-xorta hó-b-ʾíḏe dìye,ˈ hóle zála-w ṯàya,ˈ mṭawóle b-a-xòrta,ˈ ʾáy ʿal-ʾasā́s kupále dìyelaˈ là xórta.ˈ xá-bena píšle lɛ̀leˈ qəm-xazéle xa-mə́ndi ṯàyaˈ ráqa xāṣ-sùsa,ˈ ʾax-lhàya,ˈ ʾáx-bə́rqa lháya bèṛa,ˈ mə́nne díye nàše,ˈ lɛ́ḏəx mòdi.ˈ ʾu-ṯéle ʾo-bèṛaˈ ʾo-nùra,ˈ ʾo-mə́ndi la-ḏíle sùsa-wewaˈ náša-wewa l-xàṣe.ˈ b-lɛ̀le-wewa.ˈ xzéle ʾax-núra béṛa-w síqle sìqleˈ wírre gu-xa-gə́ppa gu-d-o-ṭúra t-wéwa báṯər xaṣèy.ˈ hóle tàma.ˈ ʾáwwa là-mṣele čú-məndi bíye.ˈ klèleˈ hal-tímla ṭḷáṯa yomàṯaˈ Rustắmo ṛìšle.ˈ ṛíšle Rustằmoˈ mə́re ha-xwarzáya Bèžəmˈ líṯ wíya čù-məndi,ˈ genáwe hàle?ˈ mə́re he-b-àlahaˈ xáli hā́l ʾu-qə́ṣṣət hàtxɛla.ˈ mə́re xa-núra ʾə́ṯyɛle b-lɛ̀leˈ ʾax-ʾáxxa sàqa.ˈ ʾána šqìlənneˈ ʾáwwa qaṭíya mxáya ʾə́lle dìye.ˈ ʾu-lɛ̀le npíla čú-məndi,ˈ ʾína xákma məndiyáne hóla npíle tămáha mazlòqe,ˈ lan-ḏaʾa mòdile.ˈ hole-síqa wírre gu-d-wàha gə́ppa.ˈ ʾáwwa mə̀reˈ mòdi?ˈ zílle xzéle ʾína kúlla dàweˈ ʾu-m-ánna mujawharā̀tˈ t-wɛ́wa tə́lye b-qḏálə d-ɛ-bràta,ˈ npíle l-ằra.ˈ mə́re há ʾàyyaˈ lìtlux šúlaˈ klí díya ṱ-ásqəx xázəx módile tàma.ˈ hadíya qìmɛle Rustắmoˈ síqa l-tắrət gə̀ppa.ˈ Béžəm mə́re lá xáli ʾàna ṱ-ásqən táma.ˈ káze kli-ʾàtiˈ mə́re lá ʾana-ṱ-àsqenaˈ ʾáti tu-làxxa.ˈ ʾána ṱ-àsqena.ˈ hátxa rəqqiyàna-wewa,ˈ yalúnka zòra-wewa b-šə́mmaˈ ʾína ʾáp-aw ferə̀ssa-wewa.ˈ qímɛle síqa síqa gu-d-áw gə̀ppa,ˈ ʾína ʾáw xə́zyəlle xa-nàšaˈ dmìxaˈ réše díye múttəlle gu-xánət ḏa-bràta,ˈ ḏa-bráta rába xàmṯa.ˈ ʾa-bráta mə̀raˈ ʾáti mùt wáḏa láxxa?ˈ ʾə́ṯyən ʾáti maṣlə̀nnəx,ˈ nablə̀nnəx.ˈ mə́ra ʾə́lle dìyeˈ qu-qìma!ˈ sìgən ʾáti!ˈ ṣlìgena,ˈ t-lá-ṛayəš ʾàwwa.ˈ ʾáwwa náša ʾən-ṛìšleˈ ʾáwwa ferə̀ssɛleˈ ʾati-qaṭə̀llux.ˈ mə́re lá b-àlaha,ˈ ʾə́lla maṣlə́nnəx ʾàna.ˈ ʾən-ʾíle ʾúrza gáwṛa xoš-qàyəm,ˈ mjarbə̀nne.ˈ ʾaw-ṛìšle.ˈ ʾíman-t ṛíšle qəm-xazèle.ˈ káze xoš-ṣlìgənˈ yalúnka ʾáti zòrɛwət.ˈ la-hanéli qaṭlə̀nnuxˈ mə́re lá b-àlaha.ˈ ʾən-qaṭlə́nnux ʾáyya bráta šaqlə̀nnaˈ ʾən-la-pálṭən m-àxxa.ˈ píšle májbur ʾáp ʾaw-náša t-wéwa múrqəlla ʾa-bràta.ˈ ʾáp-ʾaw ferə̀ssa-wewa rába.ˈ ʾáyya báxta băyéwala Zàlo.ˈ twíra twíra réše díye m-rēš-d-àyya-wawaˈ ʾáwwa ferə̀ssa-wewaˈ zíla šqíləlla mən-bába-w yə̀mma-wˈ jlíwəlla mùṯyəlla.ˈ múrəlla gu-d-o-gə̀ppaˈ mṭùšyəlla.ˈ hadíya ʾáw ferə̀ssaˈ qíma dwìqəlle Béžəm,ˈ síṛəlla ʾáqle w-iṯàṯe,ˈ zə́dyəlle b-tắrət gə̀ppa.ˈ zə́dyəlle b-tắrət gə́ppa-w ṣə̀lyɛle,ˈ mčonə́gla mčonə̀gla.ˈ xìrreˈ Rustắmo ʾína xwarzáya mčangòle,ˈ mə́xyəlle qáple bìyeˈ dwìqəlle.ˈ dwìqəlleˈ ʾu-šə́ryəlla ʾaqláṯe w-iṯáṯe mə̀reˈ ha-mòdi?ˈ mə́re hā́l ʾu-qə́ṣṣət hàtxɛla.ˈ mə́re kli-ʾaw-lɛ̀le šúlux,ˈ ṱ-ásqən ʾána b-gàni.ˈ qímɛle Rustằmoˈ ʾu-sìqɛle.ˈ gu-d-o-gə́ppa xírre ʾina-ʾo-náša tàma.ˈ ʾáwwa ʾɛ-dánət qəm-xazèle,ˈ qəm-yăḏèle,ˈ ḏíle ṱ-ile-Rustằmo.ˈ yăḏéwa xa-náša gabbàrɛle,ˈ ferə̀ssa,ˈ lá-mṣe bíye dìye.ˈ káze wáḏa hìwi mə́nneˈ ʾána xulàmux.ˈ sìgən,ˈ šùqliˈ ʾu-ʾáyya hon-múṯyəlla ʾàna,ˈ dìyila.ˈ mə́re b-rèšuxˈ b-réšət bàbux,ˈ ʾáyya bráta la-pɛ́ša bìyux.ˈ qìmaˈ mə́xyəlla gúrza gu-réšət d-ó-naša qṭìləlle.ˈ ʾu-ʾa-bráta šqìləlla.ˈ šqìləlla,ˈ muṣə̀lyəlla,ˈ múttəlla báṯre díye xāṣ-sùsaˈ ʾu-zílɛle ṱ-ázəl ʾáṯṛət bàbə d-ɛ-bráta.ˈ bábə d-á-brata ʾíle ʾáp-ʾaw gabbàra-wˈ ʾítle náše rábe gabbàre,ˈ ta-ʾáṯṛa xrèna,ˈ šə́mme díye ʾAprəsyàw.ˈ Béžəm mə̀reˈ lɛ̀kəx zála xáli?ˈ ʾáy maqəlbə̀xlaˈ nablə̀xlaˈ ʾáyya ṭla-sàwi,ˈ ṭla-sáwi Zàlo.ˈ mə́re là.ˈ ṱ-ázən nablə́nna kəs-bába dìya.ˈ ṭalbə̀nna mə́nne díye.ˈ ʾən-lɛ̀le yawə́lla,ˈ qaṭlə̀nne,ˈ šaqlə́nna b-xɛ̀la-wˈ xaráye maqəlbə̀nna.ˈ sab-hátxa gabbàra-wewa,ˈ lá-băye ṱ-awə́ḏwa lèbe.ˈ ʾu-zílela ha-ṱ-ázi máṭi l-ʾáṯṛət … d-áw … bábə d-a-bràta.ˈ hadíya Rustằmoˈ šqilàle brátaˈ muttále xāṣ-súsa báṯre dìyeˈ ʾu-zílla b-ʾùrxa.ˈ mə́re ṭla-xwarzáye díye Bèžəmˈ ṱ-ázəx l-ʾáṯṛət ʾAprəsyáw bábət bràta.ˈ ʾáṯṛe díye rə̀ḥqɛle,ˈ zílla b-yomàṯa.ˈ Béžəm xwarzáye díye mə̀reˈ xàli,ˈ bárəxla ʾə̀lluxˈ ʾáyya ṭlàluxˈ mə̀reˈ là xwárza,ˈ là.ˈ ʾáyya ṭlíbtət bàbila.ˈ nablə́nna ṭla-bàbi.ˈ bas-ṱ-àzexiˈ ṭalbə́xla m-bába dìya.ˈ sab-ʾánna ʾaširàttela,ˈ náše gabbàrela,ˈ là-baryaˈ gànwiˈ ʾən-sàlbi.ˈ ṱ-ázəl ṭalə́bla m-be-bába dìya.ˈ xaráye mɛṯèlaˈ nabə́lla ṭla-bábe dìye.ˈ b-rəš-d-àyya brátaˈ réšət bábe díye t-Zàloˈ ṯéle twíra ràbe gáye.ˈ zílela yomàṯa,ˈ xá-yoma-w tré ʾu-ṭḷàṯa,ˈ há-ṱ-ila mə́ṭye ʾáṯṛət bába d-a-bràta.ˈ mə́ṭyela ḏa-mḏìta.ˈ qímela mə́xyela k̭winày,ˈ xá-dukṯa qúrbət … d-à mḏíta.ˈ mə́re ṭla-Bèžəm,ˈ xwarzáye dìye,ˈ ʾáti tú-tiwa làxxa.ˈ ʾu-súsi páyəš làxxaˈ ʾu-ʾána bráta masqə́nna be-bába dìya.ˈ qìmɛleˈ dwíqəlla ʾīḏ-bràtaˈ ʾu-síqa sìqa.ˈ mbùqrɛle,ˈ moxə́zyəlle ʾan-náše bɛ́ṯət bábə d-a-bràta.ˈ mə́ra ʾàwwɛle.ˈ síqle xábra l-bábət bràtaˈ mə́ra brátux mùṯya.ˈ mə́re ʾɛ́ni muṯyàle?ˈ mə́ra xá-naša hóle mùṯyəllaˈ ʾu-lɛ́ḏəxle ʾáwwa náša m-ɛ̀kɛle,ˈ xa-ferə̀ssa.ˈ bábət bráta plíṭle qámṯe díye qəm-xazèle,ˈ mguzgə́zla lášše díye zdìle.ˈ mə́re ʾo-ṱ-íle múrqəlla bráti rába gabbàra-wewa.ˈ kúlla ʾaskarwáṯi lɛwa mə́ṣye bìye.ˈ ʾáwwa màṭo xóḏe díye mə́ṣya šqílle ʾɛ-bráta mən-d-áw,ˈ lázəm ʾawwa-ràba ferə́ssɛle.ˈ zdìle.ˈ qíma sìqɛle.ˈ də́ryɛle šlàma-ʾəlle,ˈ wíra tíwa gu-dìwənˈ ʾu-ʾə́ṯyela guṛàneˈ d-o-náša-w ferə́sse dìyeˈ kúlla tíwe gu-dìwən-ila.ˈ ʾu-bráta múrəlla gu-xa-mànzəl.ˈ ʾánna lɛ́la mbaqórəlle m-ɛ̀kɛwətˈ ʾan-náše le-y-mbáqri mən-ʾárxa ʾáti m-ɛ̀kɛwət.ˈ tíwela múṯye ʾixàla-wˈ xìlela.ˈ ʾaw-bába d-ɛ́-brata šə́mme díye ʾAprəsyàw.ˈ hóle mə́re ṭla-xá xuláme dìyeˈ mə́re ʾa-dánət mɛ́ṯeti qàwa,ˈ mpằleti,ˈ mattə́tla ʾáqlux rəš-qalúnka d-áwwa náša torə̀tle,ˈ torə́tle qalúnke dìye.ˈ sab-ʾáni garšíwa qălùnka,ˈ jigára lìtwa.ˈ qalúnka maḷɛ́wa tŭ̀tunˈ ʾu-garšìwa.ˈ Rustắmo qalúnke díye grìšle.ˈ rzìgle,ˈ qəm-mattúle hátxa l-ʾằra.ˈ múṯye qàweˈ yáwi ʾə́lle dìye.ˈ šqílle qáwa ṭla-šàte,ˈ ʾo-qáwači qəm-mattúla ʾáqle rəš-qalùnkaˈ qəm-tawə̀rre.ˈ Rustắmo ʾɛ-dánə xzéle qalúnke twìra,ˈ bríkɛwa rəš-bə̀rke,ˈ də́ryəlla ʾíḏe díye l-d-ò-qawači,ˈ tqìləlle,ˈ mə́xyəlle l-ʾằra.ˈ mìṯɛle ʾo-náša.ˈ ʾɛ-dánə ṱ-íle wíḏəlle ʾáwwa šùla,ˈ ʾo-góṛa d-à-maṯa,ˈ d-à-mḏita,ˈ ʾAprəsyàw,ˈ ṱ-amrə́xle ràyyəs,ˈ mguzgáztɛla lášše dìye,ˈ zdìyɛle rába.ˈ mə́re ʾáwwa ferə̀ssɛle,ˈ ʾáwwa lá-mṣən bíye dìye.ˈ ṱ-áwəḏ baláye biyɛ̀ni.ˈ ʾu-ʾáp-xa lɛ́le mṣùṯa-wˈ qímɛle ʾó-naša šqíləlle nùbləlle.ˈ tíwɛle tàma.ˈ tíwɛle tàma,ˈ ʾo-lɛ́le dmíxɛle Rustằmoˈ kəs-d-àni,ˈ ʾárxa diyèyile.ˈ də́ryəlle šwíṯa gu-xà-manzəl,ˈ dmìxɛle.ˈ ʾáw ʾi-dáməx ṭḷaṯà yomáṯa la-qàyəm.ˈ w-ánna là-ṣbara ṱ-ázi mărəšíle.ˈ Béžəm hóle šə́ttət máṯa mòdile wáḏa?ˈ hóle zàlaˈ ḏa-gótət màṯaˈ mxáyəlla ʾɛ́-xòrtaˈ gu-d-an-bàte,ˈ kúlla tlàxəlla,ˈ b-lɛ̀leˈ b-rəš-nàše,ˈ ʾu-ráqa ṯàyɛle.ˈ qam-páyəš yóma ṯáya dmáxa gu-čádre dìye.ˈ xábra mṭéle l-màlka.ˈ mə́ra ḏa-gótət màṯa hola-tlíxta.ˈ ṣléle ṭàyaˈ ʾɛ̀nile tlíxəlla ʾáyya.ˈ kɛ̀la ʾaskarwáṯaˈ ʾə́ṯye ṭalbɛ̀niˈ ʾu-mára lɛ̀le-xəzya čù-nášaˈ bas-yắḏəx hóla tlíxe ʾánna bàteˈ ʾu-lɛ̀la-xəzye ʾaskarwáṯa.ˈ ʾó-yoma zìlle.ˈ yómə trèˈ zílle Béžəm xa-góta xéta d-a-mḏìta.ˈ ʾap-ʾo-yóma ʾa-xórta ṱ-ìla b-ʾíḏe díyeˈ mxáyəlla gu-d-ánna báte tlaxə̀lla,ˈ ʾap-a-măḥálle tlixàle.ˈ ʾu-ríqle zìlleˈ dmíxle gu-čádre dìye.ˈ síqle xábra mṭéle l-màlka,ˈ mə̀raˈ ḏa-gótət màṯa,ˈ t-mḏìta,ˈ hola-tlìxta.ˈ ʾáwwa zdíle ràbaˈ mə́re ʾánna … ʾɛ̀nile wáḏəlle ʾáwwa šúla?ˈ la-ḏíla ʾɛ̀nile.ˈ xaràyeˈ ṛíšle Rùstămo.ˈ ṛìšle,ˈ ʾó-malka mə́re ṭla-Rùstămoˈ hāl ʾu-qə́ṣṣət hàtxaˈ mòdi qə́ṣṣət?ˈ ʾáyya mà čadrɛ́la gu-dášta?ˈ bálki ṱ-íla mən-tàma tráṣa ʾánna xráwe.ˈ Rustắmo mə́re ʾána lè-y-yăḏən módile bə́ryaˈ ṭlìyənwa.ˈ qlíble málka mšodə́rre ʾàskarˈ qam-d-à-čadra.ˈ ṣlèleˈ ṭla-t-xáze mòdi gu-d-a-čàdra.ˈ Béžəm plìṭleˈ qəm-šaqə́lle ʾo-qaṭíye dìyeˈ ʾaw-qaṭíya xòrtɛla.ˈ kréle gu-d-a-ʾàskarˈ qəm-mpatpə̀tlaˈ kút-xa qəm-xašə́lle ḏa-gòta.ˈ málka zdìle.ˈ mə́re ʾáwwa šúla m-àxxɛle tráṣa.ˈ mə́re ṭla-Rustằmoˈ ʾɛ̀nile ʾáwwa?ˈ mə́re ʾáwwa xwarzàyile.ˈ ṭla-mò ṣláya pláša mə́nne díye?ˈ mə́re madám ṱ-íle xwarzàyuxˈ ṭla-módi tíwa tàmaˈ lɛ́le ṯáya làxxa,ˈ bálki ṱ-ile-ʾàwwa tláxəlla ʾánna báte.ˈ mə́re lɛ́le ʾàw.ˈ ʾən-ʾítlux ferə́sse bắyət pàlšət,ˈ hadíya ʾána hon-ʾə̀ṯyaˈ ṭlába bràtux,ˈ bắyət yawə̀tla,ˈ bắyət pálšət kèfux!ˈ mə́re là b-álaha.ˈ ʾána bráti lè-y-yawənna-llux.ˈ le-y-yăḏə́nnɛxu m-ɛkɛ̀tu.ˈ mə́re lè-y-yăḏətli?ˈ mə́re là.ˈ ṣə̀lyɛleˈ ʾáni qári qắbux l-ġḏàḏe.ˈ ṣə́lyɛle gu-dàštaˈ mə́re kú-ṱ-ile ferə́ssa ʾáṯe ʾàxxane,ˈ mjarə̀bla gáne.ˈ málka mšadòrəlleˈ ferə́sse dìyeˈ ṭla-gḏàla.ˈ kú-ṱ-ile ṣláya tàmaˈ lɛ̀la mṣáya bíye díyeˈ hóle qṭàləlla.ˈ Rustắmo ferə̀ssɛle.ˈ zála-w plàṭaˈ mə́re ṭla-xále dìyeˈ mə́re xàliˈ šúqla ʾánna ṭlàli,ˈ ʾan-yalúnke zòre.ˈ šúqla ṭlàli.ˈ Rustắmo mə́re làˈ si-dmúx gu-čàdra,ˈ ʾánna k̭áwa xàmmi.ˈ béna xaràyeˈ píšle màjburˈ kúl ʾaskarwáṯa d-o-málka qəm-tayə̀mla,ˈ lɛ̀la mṣáya b-Rùstămo.ˈ málka zdíle ràbaˈ mšodə́rre bàṯreˈ wídle ṣóloh mə́nne dìye.ˈ wídle ṣóloh mə̀nne,ˈ mə́re ʾána bắyən t-yắḏen ʾáti ʾɛ̀niwət.ˈ mə́re ʾána ʾíwən Rustắmo brōn-t-Zàlo,ˈ t-y-aṯéwa ṭlábəlla bràtuxˈ ʾu-t-maxìtuwaleˈ ʾu-réše díye torìtuwale,ˈ brináne gu-rèše.ˈ hon-ʾə́ṯya ṭlábəlla bràtux,ˈ nablə́nna ṭla-bàbi.ˈ ʾAprəsyàwˈ lə́š-ile mṣáya ṱ-ámər čù-məndi.ˈ lɛ̀le mṣáya bíye díye.ˈ ferə̀ssɛle.ˈ ʾu-ʾaskarwáṯa díye kúlla pálga qṭilìle.ˈ mə́re ʾáxni t-yawə́xla ʾína ṭlàlux.ˈ mə́re là.ˈ ʾána hon-yə̀myaˈ ʾáyya bráta hon-ʾə́ṯya nablə̀nnaˈ ʾən-b-našùṯa,ˈ ʾən-b-xɛ̀la,ˈ nablə́nna ṭla-bàbi.ˈ bə́nta xaráye píšle màjburˈ málka qəm-yawə́lla ʾə́lle dìye.ˈ mə́re ʾána hiwàli,ˈ bắyət nábəlla ṭla-gànuxˈ bắyət nábəlla ṭla-bàbux.ˈ qìmɛle,ˈ múttəlla xāṣ-sùsa,ˈ ʾu-mupə́šṭəlla ʾan-nàšeˈ ʾu-ṭlíbela xáṭər mənnèy,ˈ ʾu-zìlɛle.ˈ zìlɛleˈ xá-yoma-w tré-w ṭḷàṯa.ˈ ʾə́ṯyɛle məṭyɛle ʾáṯṛət bábe dìye.ˈ ʾu-núbləlla ʾa-bràta,ˈ híwəlla ṭla-bábe dìye.ˈ wíḏela xlùlaˈ šawwà yomáṯa-wˈ šawwà lɛlăwàṯa-wˈ dáwla-w zòrna.ˈ ʾu-qəm-magwə̀rra l-bábe díyeˈ ʾa-bràta.ˈ ʾu-ʾána šwiqáli tàmaˈ ʾu-ṯéli làxxa.ˈ xa-tuníṯa ṱ-íla ṯáya l-bàliˈ y-amríwala Rustắmo ʾu-Zàlo.ˈ Rústam brṓn-t Zā̀l-wewa.ˈ ʾánna xákma náše gabbàre-wɛwaˈ xɛlàne.ˈ paxrèyˈ xɛlàne-wɛwaˈ ʾu-gòṛe-wɛwa.ˈ gabbàre.ˈ ʾáp-xa lá-mṣaya biyèy.ˈ ʾɛ̀-gaˈ Rustắmo mtánɛ mə́nne y-ámri ʾɛ́-gət damə̀xwa,ˈ ṭḷaṯà yomáṯaˈ ʾu-ṭḷaṯà lɛlăwáṯa háwe dmìxa,ˈ là qayə́mwa,ˈ là ṛayə́šwa.ˈ bábe dìye,ˈ Zā̀l,ˈ ʾíṯwale xà-našaˈ maqrə́ṭwa káwse dìyeˈ y-amríle ḥallàqa.ˈ tíwɛle Zàloˈ qam-tắrət qáṣre dìyeˈ ʾo-ḥallàqaˈ hóle múṯyəlla xa-semàltaˈ múttəlla baṯrə̀t rušáne díye.ˈ ma-t-wéwa gòṛa,ˈ ḥalláqa là maṭyáwa ʾíḏe gu-réšət Zálo.ˈ mattúwa semálta gu-xáṣe díye ʾu-y-asə̀qwaˈ gu-réšə semàltaˈ maqrə́ṭwa káwsət Zàlo.ˈ qəm-qayə́ṣle káwse dìyeˈ xírre gu-réšət Zàloˈ ʾíṯwa šaqyàṯaˈ brinàne,ˈ gòṛe rába.ˈ mə́re ṭla-Zàlo:ˈ Zàloˈ ʾánna mòdila gu-réšux,ˈ ʾánna šaqyàṯa.ˈ módila ʾánna brinàne?ˈ mə̀reˈ hadíya quṣ-kàwsi!ˈ ʾaw-lɛ̀le šúlux.ˈ mə́re là-b-alaha.ˈ ʾən-lá galə́tli ʾánna šaqyáṯa módi gu-rèšux,ˈ ʾánna brinánət mòdilaˈ w-ʾáti hátxa gabbàra,ˈ ʾu-ʾɛ́ni hátxa twíra rèšuxˈ wíḏa brináne gu-rèšux,ˈ mə́re ʾən-là galə́tli,ˈ ʾána lɛ̀-qɛṣənne káwsux.ˈ zədyále maqáṣte dìyeˈ mə́re lá qɛṣə̀nne.ˈ kàze.ˈ qúṣli rèši!ˈ gúda máre naṯyàṯɛle.ˈ mə́re là-b-alaha,ˈ lá qɛṣə́nne rèšux,ˈ ʾən-qaṭlə̀tli.ˈ là qɛṣə́nne káwsux,ˈ ʾə́lla ṱ-amrə́tli ʾánna ma-brinànela gu-réšux.ˈ mə̀reˈ ṱ-amrə̀nnuxˈ de-hàyyoˈ tu-tìwa.ˈ mə́re ʾána băyə́nwala xa-bràta,ˈ brátət ʾAprəsyàwˈ t-fə̀llən ʾáṯṛa,ˈ xa-ʾáṯṛa rə̀ḥqa-wewa.ˈ mə́re y-azə́nwa mɛṯoyə̀lla,ˈ lɛ̀ yawíwala ʾə́lli.ˈ y-azə́nwa b-xɛ́la mɛṯòyəllaˈ palšə̀xwa.ˈ ʾíṯwaley ʾáp-ʾani náše ferə́sse ʾu-gabbàre.ˈ palšə̀xwa.ˈ ʾu-ʾánna brináne kúlla d-àn šarrăwáṯaˈ t-maxɛ̀waˈ murzăwáṯa gu-rèši.ˈ ʾu-ríqən ʾə̀ṯya.ˈ bráta làn-məṣya ṱ-in-múṯyəlla.ˈ Rustắmo bróne dìyeˈ hóle gu-bɛ́ṯa ṛìšle,ˈ qəm-šămèla ʾáyya ṣáwṯa.ˈ ʾimə-šmiyále kríble ràba.ˈ sab-ʾáp-ʾaw rába ferə̀ssa-wewaˈ ʾu-xɛlàna.ˈ čú-naša gu-d-o-ʾáṯṛa là-maṣe bíye.ˈ mə́re nə́mu ʾíṯ xa-náša ferə́ssa máṣe táwər réšət bàbi?ˈ ʾu-plíṭɛle b-kɛ̀rba.ˈ ʾímə ṱ-ìle plíṭa kríba kríba,ˈ rúše díye qíṯɛle b-yaṣílət tằra,ˈ tlìxɛle gúda.ˈ ma-t-wéwa zàxma,ˈ gúda tlìxle.ˈ plìṭle.ˈ Zálo mə́re ṭla-ḥallàqaˈ xzèlux!ˈ lá-məri gúda máre naṯyàṯɛle?ˈ hóle šmíyəlla Rustằmo,ˈ ṱ-áwəḏ fə̀tne.ˈ Rustắmo mə́re ṭla-bábe dìyeˈ gắrəg ʾámrət ʾay-bráta ʾɛ̀kɛla.ˈ nə́mu ʾíṯ xa-náša máṣe táwər réšət Zálo ʾu-Rustắmo sàxi?ˈ mə́re bábi hā́l ʾu-qə́ṣṣət hàtxɛla.ˈ kúlla tunìṯaˈ d-ɛ-bráta qəm-mtanèlaˈ ʾu-ʾáṯṛa ʾɛ̀kɛle,ˈ ʾu-ʾɛ̀ni-wewa twírəlle réše díye.ˈ Rustắmo kríbɛle ràba-wˈ qìmɛle,ˈ plìṭɛle.ˈ ʾə́ṯyɛle zàla-wˈ šqíləlle súse dìyeˈ ʾu-də́ryəlle sárga l-xàṣe-wˈ gùrza.ˈ ʾɛ́-ga ʾíṯwa gúrza m-geb-sɛ̀pa.ˈ xa-qɛ́sa rìxɛle,ˈ gu-réše díye gùttɛle,ˈ qìrɛle.ˈ y-ámriwala gùrza.ˈ ʾáy-ži šqìləlla.ˈ čú-naša lá-mṣewa taqə́lwala ʾa-gùrzət Rustằmo.ˈ ʾarbí baṭmáne yúqra dìya-wewa.ˈ yáʿni záwda m-əmmà-kiloʾeˈ yúqra d-ɛ-gúrze dìye-wawa.ˈ qímle zàla,ˈ zìlleˈ tíwa xāṣ-sùsa,ˈ zála plíṭle m-màṯa.ˈ ʾítwale xa-xurzàya,ˈ bɛ́ṯe díye šə́ttət màṯa-wewa.ˈ šə́mme díye Bèžəm-wewa.ˈ qəm-xazéle xále díye Rustắmo zàla.ˈ mə́re xáli lɛ̀kɛt zála?ˈ mə́re ʾáw lɛ̀le šúlux.ˈ Béžəm módile wàḏa?ˈ hóle dwáqəlle réšət xórta makyòpəlle,ˈ yalúnke zóre hola-ṯáya ʾu-sáqa b-à-xorta,ˈ marpòyəlle réšət xórta,ˈ xórta hóla zyàna,ˈ ʾan-yalúnke zóre kùt-xa hóle zdáyəlle bar-ḏá-gotət dúnye.ˈ Rustắmo mə̀reˈ xwàrza!ˈ lá-wuḏ hàtxaˈ qṭúl ʾanna-bnónə náše kùlla.ˈ mə́re lìtla xámˈ lɛ̀kɛt zála?ˈ mə́re ʾána ṱ-ázən ʾítli šùla.ˈ ʾáti si-bɛ̀ṯa!ˈ mə́re là xáli.ˈ ṱ-áṯən mə̀nnux.ˈ káze qlùbˈ mə́re là.ˈ hár ṱ-áṯən mə̀nnux.ˈ qímɛle šlìxəlla xórtaˈ múttəlla rəš-rúše-w zìlɛle.ˈ xírre Rustằmoˈ qəm-xazéle ʾa-xórta šlíxəlla múttəlla rəš-rùše.ˈ mə́re ʾáwwa balàyɛleˈ yan-ʾáwwa dáwəq wàjju.ˈ ʾu-ʾáwwa ṭəfl-zòra-wewa b-šə́mma.ˈ ʾu-zìlela.ˈ zílela xá-yoma tré ʾu-ṭḷàṯa,ˈ zíle dmíxela xà-dukṯa.ˈ čèlay,ˈ dmíxlay xa-dúkṯa.ˈ béna Rustắmo ʾɛ́-gət dàməxˈ ṭḷaṯà yomáṯaˈ ʾu-ṭḷaṯá lɛlăwáṯa y-áwe dmíxa lɛ-ṛàyəš.ˈ mə́re ṭla-Béžəm xwarzáye dìyeˈ ʾáti də-la-dàmxeti,ˈ ʾána dámxən làxxaˈ t-lá-ʾaṯi genàweˈ ganwìle súsa.ˈ mə́re spày.ˈ Béžəm hóle tìwaˈ ḥắras-ile t-xále dìye,ˈ ʾu-ʾá-xorta hó-b-ʾíḏe dìye,ˈ hóle zála-w ṯàya,ˈ mṭawóle b-a-xòrta,ˈ ʾáy ʿal-ʾasā́s kupále dìyelaˈ là xórta.ˈ xá-bena píšle lɛ̀leˈ qəm-xazéle xa-mə́ndi ṯàyaˈ ráqa xāṣ-sùsa,ˈ ʾax-lhàya,ˈ ʾáx-bə́rqa lháya bèṛa,ˈ mə́nne díye nàše,ˈ lɛ́ḏəx mòdi.ˈ ʾu-ṯéle ʾo-bèṛaˈ ʾo-nùra,ˈ ʾo-mə́ndi la-ḏíle sùsa-wewaˈ náša-wewa l-xàṣe.ˈ b-lɛ̀le-wewa.ˈ xzéle ʾax-núra béṛa-w síqle sìqleˈ wírre gu-xa-gə́ppa gu-d-o-ṭúra t-wéwa báṯər xaṣèy.ˈ hóle tàma.ˈ ʾáwwa là-mṣele čú-məndi bíye.ˈ klèleˈ hal-tímla ṭḷáṯa yomàṯaˈ Rustắmo ṛìšle.ˈ ṛíšle Rustằmoˈ mə́re ha-xwarzáya Bèžəmˈ líṯ wíya čù-məndi,ˈ genáwe hàle?ˈ mə́re he-b-àlahaˈ xáli hā́l ʾu-qə́ṣṣət hàtxɛla.ˈ mə́re xa-núra ʾə́ṯyɛle b-lɛ̀leˈ ʾax-ʾáxxa sàqa.ˈ ʾána šqìlənneˈ ʾáwwa qaṭíya mxáya ʾə́lle dìye.ˈ ʾu-lɛ̀le npíla čú-məndi,ˈ ʾína xákma məndiyáne hóla npíle tămáha mazlòqe,ˈ lan-ḏaʾa mòdile.ˈ hole-síqa wírre gu-d-wàha gə́ppa.ˈ ʾáwwa mə̀reˈ mòdi?ˈ zílle xzéle ʾína kúlla dàweˈ ʾu-m-ánna mujawharā̀tˈ t-wɛ́wa tə́lye b-qḏálə d-ɛ-bràta,ˈ npíle l-ằra.ˈ mə́re há ʾàyyaˈ lìtlux šúlaˈ klí díya ṱ-ásqəx xázəx módile tàma.ˈ hadíya qìmɛle Rustắmoˈ síqa l-tắrət gə̀ppa.ˈ Béžəm mə́re lá xáli ʾàna ṱ-ásqən táma.ˈ káze kli-ʾàtiˈ mə́re lá ʾana-ṱ-àsqenaˈ ʾáti tu-làxxa.ˈ ʾána ṱ-àsqena.ˈ hátxa rəqqiyàna-wewa,ˈ yalúnka zòra-wewa b-šə́mmaˈ ʾína ʾáp-aw ferə̀ssa-wewa.ˈ qímɛle síqa síqa gu-d-áw gə̀ppa,ˈ ʾína ʾáw xə́zyəlle xa-nàšaˈ dmìxaˈ réše díye múttəlle gu-xánət ḏa-bràta,ˈ ḏa-bráta rába xàmṯa.ˈ ʾa-bráta mə̀raˈ ʾáti mùt wáḏa láxxa?ˈ ʾə́ṯyən ʾáti maṣlə̀nnəx,ˈ nablə̀nnəx.ˈ mə́ra ʾə́lle dìyeˈ qu-qìma!ˈ sìgən ʾáti!ˈ ṣlìgena,ˈ t-lá-ṛayəš ʾàwwa.ˈ ʾáwwa náša ʾən-ṛìšleˈ ʾáwwa ferə̀ssɛleˈ ʾati-qaṭə̀llux.ˈ mə́re lá b-àlaha,ˈ ʾə́lla maṣlə́nnəx ʾàna.ˈ ʾən-ʾíle ʾúrza gáwṛa xoš-qàyəm,ˈ mjarbə̀nne.ˈ ʾaw-ṛìšle.ˈ ʾíman-t ṛíšle qəm-xazèle.ˈ káze xoš-ṣlìgənˈ yalúnka ʾáti zòrɛwət.ˈ la-hanéli qaṭlə̀nnuxˈ mə́re lá b-àlaha.ˈ ʾən-qaṭlə́nnux ʾáyya bráta šaqlə̀nnaˈ ʾən-la-pálṭən m-àxxa.ˈ píšle májbur ʾáp ʾaw-náša t-wéwa múrqəlla ʾa-bràta.ˈ ʾáp-ʾaw ferə̀ssa-wewa rába.ˈ ʾáyya báxta băyéwala Zàlo.ˈ twíra twíra réše díye m-rēš-d-àyya-wawaˈ ʾáwwa ferə̀ssa-wewaˈ zíla šqíləlla mən-bába-w yə̀mma-wˈ jlíwəlla mùṯyəlla.ˈ múrəlla gu-d-o-gə̀ppaˈ mṭùšyəlla.ˈ hadíya ʾáw ferə̀ssaˈ qíma dwìqəlle Béžəm,ˈ síṛəlla ʾáqle w-iṯàṯe,ˈ zə́dyəlle b-tắrət gə̀ppa.ˈ zə́dyəlle b-tắrət gə́ppa-w ṣə̀lyɛle,ˈ mčonə́gla mčonə̀gla.ˈ xìrreˈ Rustắmo ʾína xwarzáya mčangòle,ˈ mə́xyəlle qáple bìyeˈ dwìqəlle.ˈ dwìqəlleˈ ʾu-šə́ryəlla ʾaqláṯe w-iṯáṯe mə̀reˈ ha-mòdi?ˈ mə́re hā́l ʾu-qə́ṣṣət hàtxɛla.ˈ mə́re kli-ʾaw-lɛ̀le šúlux,ˈ ṱ-ásqən ʾána b-gàni.ˈ qímɛle Rustằmoˈ ʾu-sìqɛle.ˈ gu-d-o-gə́ppa xírre ʾina-ʾo-náša tàma.ˈ ʾáwwa ʾɛ-dánət qəm-xazèle,ˈ qəm-yăḏèle,ˈ ḏíle ṱ-ile-Rustằmo.ˈ yăḏéwa xa-náša gabbàrɛle,ˈ ferə̀ssa,ˈ lá-mṣe bíye dìye.ˈ káze wáḏa hìwi mə́nneˈ ʾána xulàmux.ˈ sìgən,ˈ šùqliˈ ʾu-ʾáyya hon-múṯyəlla ʾàna,ˈ dìyila.ˈ mə́re b-rèšuxˈ b-réšət bàbux,ˈ ʾáyya bráta la-pɛ́ša bìyux.ˈ qìmaˈ mə́xyəlla gúrza gu-réšət d-ó-naša qṭìləlle.ˈ ʾu-ʾa-bráta šqìləlla.ˈ šqìləlla,ˈ muṣə̀lyəlla,ˈ múttəlla báṯre díye xāṣ-sùsaˈ ʾu-zílɛle ṱ-ázəl ʾáṯṛət bàbə d-ɛ-bráta.ˈ bábə d-á-brata ʾíle ʾáp-ʾaw gabbàra-wˈ ʾítle náše rábe gabbàre,ˈ ta-ʾáṯṛa xrèna,ˈ šə́mme díye ʾAprəsyàw.ˈ Béžəm mə̀reˈ lɛ̀kəx zála xáli?ˈ ʾáy maqəlbə̀xlaˈ nablə̀xlaˈ ʾáyya ṭla-sàwi,ˈ ṭla-sáwi Zàlo.ˈ mə́re là.ˈ ṱ-ázən nablə́nna kəs-bába dìya.ˈ ṭalbə̀nna mə́nne díye.ˈ ʾən-lɛ̀le yawə́lla,ˈ qaṭlə̀nne,ˈ šaqlə́nna b-xɛ̀la-wˈ xaráye maqəlbə̀nna.ˈ sab-hátxa gabbàra-wewa,ˈ lá-băye ṱ-awə́ḏwa lèbe.ˈ ʾu-zílela ha-ṱ-ázi máṭi l-ʾáṯṛət … d-áw … bábə d-a-bràta.ˈ hadíya Rustằmoˈ šqilàle brátaˈ muttále xāṣ-súsa báṯre dìyeˈ ʾu-zílla b-ʾùrxa.ˈ mə́re ṭla-xwarzáye díye Bèžəmˈ ṱ-ázəx l-ʾáṯṛət ʾAprəsyáw bábət bràta.ˈ ʾáṯṛe díye rə̀ḥqɛle,ˈ zílla b-yomàṯa.ˈ Béžəm xwarzáye díye mə̀reˈ xàli,ˈ bárəxla ʾə̀lluxˈ ʾáyya ṭlàluxˈ mə̀reˈ là xwárza,ˈ là.ˈ ʾáyya ṭlíbtət bàbila.ˈ nablə́nna ṭla-bàbi.ˈ bas-ṱ-àzexiˈ ṭalbə́xla m-bába dìya.ˈ sab-ʾánna ʾaširàttela,ˈ náše gabbàrela,ˈ là-baryaˈ gànwiˈ ʾən-sàlbi.ˈ ṱ-ázəl ṭalə́bla m-be-bába dìya.ˈ xaráye mɛṯèlaˈ nabə́lla ṭla-bábe dìye.ˈ b-rəš-d-àyya brátaˈ réšət bábe díye t-Zàloˈ ṯéle twíra ràbe gáye.ˈ zílela yomàṯa,ˈ xá-yoma-w tré ʾu-ṭḷàṯa,ˈ há-ṱ-ila mə́ṭye ʾáṯṛət bába d-a-bràta.ˈ mə́ṭyela ḏa-mḏìta.ˈ qímela mə́xyela k̭winày,ˈ xá-dukṯa qúrbət … d-à mḏíta.ˈ mə́re ṭla-Bèžəm,ˈ xwarzáye dìye,ˈ ʾáti tú-tiwa làxxa.ˈ ʾu-súsi páyəš làxxaˈ ʾu-ʾána bráta masqə́nna be-bába dìya.ˈ qìmɛleˈ dwíqəlla ʾīḏ-bràtaˈ ʾu-síqa sìqa.ˈ mbùqrɛle,ˈ moxə́zyəlle ʾan-náše bɛ́ṯət bábə d-a-bràta.ˈ mə́ra ʾàwwɛle.ˈ síqle xábra l-bábət bràtaˈ mə́ra brátux mùṯya.ˈ mə́re ʾɛ́ni muṯyàle?ˈ mə́ra xá-naša hóle mùṯyəllaˈ ʾu-lɛ́ḏəxle ʾáwwa náša m-ɛ̀kɛle,ˈ xa-ferə̀ssa.ˈ bábət bráta plíṭle qámṯe díye qəm-xazèle,ˈ mguzgə́zla lášše díye zdìle.ˈ mə́re ʾo-ṱ-íle múrqəlla bráti rába gabbàra-wewa.ˈ kúlla ʾaskarwáṯi lɛwa mə́ṣye bìye.ˈ ʾáwwa màṭo xóḏe díye mə́ṣya šqílle ʾɛ-bráta mən-d-áw,ˈ lázəm ʾawwa-ràba ferə́ssɛle.ˈ zdìle.ˈ qíma sìqɛle.ˈ də́ryɛle šlàma-ʾəlle,ˈ wíra tíwa gu-dìwənˈ ʾu-ʾə́ṯyela guṛàneˈ d-o-náša-w ferə́sse dìyeˈ kúlla tíwe gu-dìwən-ila.ˈ ʾu-bráta múrəlla gu-xa-mànzəl.ˈ ʾánna lɛ́la mbaqórəlle m-ɛ̀kɛwətˈ ʾan-náše le-y-mbáqri mən-ʾárxa ʾáti m-ɛ̀kɛwət.ˈ tíwela múṯye ʾixàla-wˈ xìlela.ˈ ʾaw-bába d-ɛ́-brata šə́mme díye ʾAprəsyàw.ˈ hóle mə́re ṭla-xá xuláme dìyeˈ mə́re ʾa-dánət mɛ́ṯeti qàwa,ˈ mpằleti,ˈ mattə́tla ʾáqlux rəš-qalúnka d-áwwa náša torə̀tle,ˈ torə́tle qalúnke dìye.ˈ sab-ʾáni garšíwa qălùnka,ˈ jigára lìtwa.ˈ qalúnka maḷɛ́wa tŭ̀tunˈ ʾu-garšìwa.ˈ Rustắmo qalúnke díye grìšle.ˈ rzìgle,ˈ qəm-mattúle hátxa l-ʾằra.ˈ múṯye qàweˈ yáwi ʾə́lle dìye.ˈ šqílle qáwa ṭla-šàte,ˈ ʾo-qáwači qəm-mattúla ʾáqle rəš-qalùnkaˈ qəm-tawə̀rre.ˈ Rustắmo ʾɛ-dánə xzéle qalúnke twìra,ˈ bríkɛwa rəš-bə̀rke,ˈ də́ryəlla ʾíḏe díye l-d-ò-qawači,ˈ tqìləlle,ˈ mə́xyəlle l-ʾằra.ˈ mìṯɛle ʾo-náša.ˈ ʾɛ-dánə ṱ-íle wíḏəlle ʾáwwa šùla,ˈ ʾo-góṛa d-à-maṯa,ˈ d-à-mḏita,ˈ ʾAprəsyàw,ˈ ṱ-amrə́xle ràyyəs,ˈ mguzgáztɛla lášše dìye,ˈ zdìyɛle rába.ˈ mə́re ʾáwwa ferə̀ssɛle,ˈ ʾáwwa lá-mṣən bíye dìye.ˈ ṱ-áwəḏ baláye biyɛ̀ni.ˈ ʾu-ʾáp-xa lɛ́le mṣùṯa-wˈ qímɛle ʾó-naša šqíləlle nùbləlle.ˈ tíwɛle tàma.ˈ tíwɛle tàma,ˈ ʾo-lɛ́le dmíxɛle Rustằmoˈ kəs-d-àni,ˈ ʾárxa diyèyile.ˈ də́ryəlle šwíṯa gu-xà-manzəl,ˈ dmìxɛle.ˈ ʾáw ʾi-dáməx ṭḷaṯà yomáṯa la-qàyəm.ˈ w-ánna là-ṣbara ṱ-ázi mărəšíle.ˈ Béžəm hóle šə́ttət máṯa mòdile wáḏa?ˈ hóle zàlaˈ ḏa-gótət màṯaˈ mxáyəlla ʾɛ́-xòrtaˈ gu-d-an-bàte,ˈ kúlla tlàxəlla,ˈ b-lɛ̀leˈ b-rəš-nàše,ˈ ʾu-ráqa ṯàyɛle.ˈ qam-páyəš yóma ṯáya dmáxa gu-čádre dìye.ˈ xábra mṭéle l-màlka.ˈ mə́ra ḏa-gótət màṯa hola-tlíxta.ˈ ṣléle ṭàyaˈ ʾɛ̀nile tlíxəlla ʾáyya.ˈ kɛ̀la ʾaskarwáṯaˈ ʾə́ṯye ṭalbɛ̀niˈ ʾu-mára lɛ̀le-xəzya čù-nášaˈ bas-yắḏəx hóla tlíxe ʾánna bàteˈ ʾu-lɛ̀la-xəzye ʾaskarwáṯa.ˈ ʾó-yoma zìlle.ˈ yómə trèˈ zílle Béžəm xa-góta xéta d-a-mḏìta.ˈ ʾap-ʾo-yóma ʾa-xórta ṱ-ìla b-ʾíḏe díyeˈ mxáyəlla gu-d-ánna báte tlaxə̀lla,ˈ ʾap-a-măḥálle tlixàle.ˈ ʾu-ríqle zìlleˈ dmíxle gu-čádre dìye.ˈ síqle xábra mṭéle l-màlka,ˈ mə̀raˈ ḏa-gótət màṯa,ˈ t-mḏìta,ˈ hola-tlìxta.ˈ ʾáwwa zdíle ràbaˈ mə́re ʾánna … ʾɛ̀nile wáḏəlle ʾáwwa šúla?ˈ la-ḏíla ʾɛ̀nile.ˈ xaràyeˈ ṛíšle Rùstămo.ˈ ṛìšle,ˈ ʾó-malka mə́re ṭla-Rùstămoˈ hāl ʾu-qə́ṣṣət hàtxaˈ mòdi qə́ṣṣət?ˈ ʾáyya mà čadrɛ́la gu-dášta?ˈ bálki ṱ-íla mən-tàma tráṣa ʾánna xráwe.ˈ Rustắmo mə́re ʾána lè-y-yăḏən módile bə́ryaˈ ṭlìyənwa.ˈ qlíble málka mšodə́rre ʾàskarˈ qam-d-à-čadra.ˈ ṣlèleˈ ṭla-t-xáze mòdi gu-d-a-čàdra.ˈ Béžəm plìṭleˈ qəm-šaqə́lle ʾo-qaṭíye dìyeˈ ʾaw-qaṭíya xòrtɛla.ˈ kréle gu-d-a-ʾàskarˈ qəm-mpatpə̀tlaˈ kút-xa qəm-xašə́lle ḏa-gòta.ˈ málka zdìle.ˈ mə́re ʾáwwa šúla m-àxxɛle tráṣa.ˈ mə́re ṭla-Rustằmoˈ ʾɛ̀nile ʾáwwa?ˈ mə́re ʾáwwa xwarzàyile.ˈ ṭla-mò ṣláya pláša mə́nne díye?ˈ mə́re madám ṱ-íle xwarzàyuxˈ ṭla-módi tíwa tàmaˈ lɛ́le ṯáya làxxa,ˈ bálki ṱ-ile-ʾàwwa tláxəlla ʾánna báte.ˈ mə́re lɛ́le ʾàw.ˈ ʾən-ʾítlux ferə́sse bắyət pàlšət,ˈ hadíya ʾána hon-ʾə̀ṯyaˈ ṭlába bràtux,ˈ bắyət yawə̀tla,ˈ bắyət pálšət kèfux!ˈ mə́re là b-álaha.ˈ ʾána bráti lè-y-yawənna-llux.ˈ le-y-yăḏə́nnɛxu m-ɛkɛ̀tu.ˈ mə́re lè-y-yăḏətli?ˈ mə́re là.ˈ ṣə̀lyɛleˈ ʾáni qári qắbux l-ġḏàḏe.ˈ ṣə́lyɛle gu-dàštaˈ mə́re kú-ṱ-ile ferə́ssa ʾáṯe ʾàxxane,ˈ mjarə̀bla gáne.ˈ málka mšadòrəlleˈ ferə́sse dìyeˈ ṭla-gḏàla.ˈ kú-ṱ-ile ṣláya tàmaˈ lɛ̀la mṣáya bíye díyeˈ hóle qṭàləlla.ˈ Rustắmo ferə̀ssɛle.ˈ zála-w plàṭaˈ mə́re ṭla-xále dìyeˈ mə́re xàliˈ šúqla ʾánna ṭlàli,ˈ ʾan-yalúnke zòre.ˈ šúqla ṭlàli.ˈ Rustắmo mə́re làˈ si-dmúx gu-čàdra,ˈ ʾánna k̭áwa xàmmi.ˈ béna xaràyeˈ píšle màjburˈ kúl ʾaskarwáṯa d-o-málka qəm-tayə̀mla,ˈ lɛ̀la mṣáya b-Rùstămo.ˈ málka zdíle ràbaˈ mšodə́rre bàṯreˈ wídle ṣóloh mə́nne dìye.ˈ wídle ṣóloh mə̀nne,ˈ mə́re ʾána bắyən t-yắḏen ʾáti ʾɛ̀niwət.ˈ mə́re ʾána ʾíwən Rustắmo brōn-t-Zàlo,ˈ t-y-aṯéwa ṭlábəlla bràtuxˈ ʾu-t-maxìtuwaleˈ ʾu-réše díye torìtuwale,ˈ brináne gu-rèše.ˈ hon-ʾə́ṯya ṭlábəlla bràtux,ˈ nablə́nna ṭla-bàbi.ˈ ʾAprəsyàwˈ lə́š-ile mṣáya ṱ-ámər čù-məndi.ˈ lɛ̀le mṣáya bíye díye.ˈ ferə̀ssɛle.ˈ ʾu-ʾaskarwáṯa díye kúlla pálga qṭilìle.ˈ mə́re ʾáxni t-yawə́xla ʾína ṭlàlux.ˈ mə́re là.ˈ ʾána hon-yə̀myaˈ ʾáyya bráta hon-ʾə́ṯya nablə̀nnaˈ ʾən-b-našùṯa,ˈ ʾən-b-xɛ̀la,ˈ nablə́nna ṭla-bàbi.ˈ bə́nta xaráye píšle màjburˈ málka qəm-yawə́lla ʾə́lle dìye.ˈ mə́re ʾána hiwàli,ˈ bắyət nábəlla ṭla-gànuxˈ bắyət nábəlla ṭla-bàbux.ˈ qìmɛle,ˈ múttəlla xāṣ-sùsa,ˈ ʾu-mupə́šṭəlla ʾan-nàšeˈ ʾu-ṭlíbela xáṭər mənnèy,ˈ ʾu-zìlɛle.ˈ zìlɛleˈ xá-yoma-w tré-w ṭḷàṯa.ˈ ʾə́ṯyɛle məṭyɛle ʾáṯṛət bábe dìye.ˈ ʾu-núbləlla ʾa-bràta,ˈ híwəlla ṭla-bábe dìye.ˈ wíḏela xlùlaˈ šawwà yomáṯa-wˈ šawwà lɛlăwàṯa-wˈ dáwla-w zòrna.ˈ ʾu-qəm-magwə̀rra l-bábe díyeˈ ʾa-bràta.ˈ ʾu-ʾána šwiqáli tàmaˈ ʾu-ṯéli làxxa.ˈ	A story that comes to my mind is called Rustam and Zāl, Rustam was the son of Zāl. These were mighty heroic warriors, their bodies were strong and huge. (They were) heroic warriors, nobody could defeat them. Now, they say of Rustam that when he slept, he would be asleep for three days and three nights, without getting up, without waking. His father Zāl had a person who used to cut his hair, called a barber. Zāl sat before his palace. The barber brought a ladder and placed it behind his shoulders. Since he was so large, the barber’s hand could not reach the head of Zāl. He would place a ladder on his back and climb up the ladder to cut the hair of Zāl. He cut his hair and looked at the head of Zāl. (He saw) that there were scars of enormous wounds. He said to Zāl ‘Zāl, what are these scars on your head? What are these wounds?’ He said ‘Now cut my hair! It is not your business’. He said ‘No, by God. If you do not reveal what these scars on your head are, what these wounds are from, when you are such a heroic warrior, and who broke your head, made wounds on your head …’, he said ‘If you do not reveal this to me, I shall not cut your hair’. He threw his scissors down and said ‘I shall not cut it’. He tried (to persuade him and said) ‘Cut (the hair on) my head! The wall has ears’. He said ‘No, by God. I shall not cut (the hair on) your head, even if you kill me. I shall not cut your hair, unless you tell me what these wounds are on your head’. He said ‘I’ll tell you. Come, sit down’. He said ‘I used to love a girl, the daughter of Aprəsyaw, of such-and-such a place, which was a distant place’. He said ‘I used to go to bring her back, but they did not give her to me. I used to go to bring her by force and we would fight. They also had warriors and heroic people. We used to fight. These wounds are all from those battles, in which they struck iron balls on my head. I fled and came back. I could not bring back the girl’. Rustam, his son, who was in the house, woke up and heard this conversation. When he heard it he became very angry, since he also was a strong warrior. Nobody in that land could defeat him. He said ‘Is there a warrior who could break the head of my father?’ He went out in anger. When he went out in great anger, his shoulder hit the side of the door and the wall was demolished. Since he was so huge, the wall was destroyed. He went out and Zāl said to the barber ‘You see! Didn’t I say that the wall has ears? Rustam has heard and he will make trouble’. Rustam said to his father ‘You must tell me where that girl is. Is there somebody who can break the head of Zāl while Rustam is alive?’ He said ‘My dear, the story is like this. He related all of the story about that girl, told where the place was and who had broken his head. Rustam became very angry. He got up and went out. He came back and took his horse. He put the saddle and the club on its back. At that time the club (_gurza_) was in use rather than the sword. This was a long piece of wood, with a ball at its end, which was tar. It was called a _gurza_. He took this. Nobody could lift that club of Rustam. Its weight was forty batmans, that is the weight of that clubof his was more than one hundred kilos. He went off and sat on the back of the horse. He went off and left the village. He had a nephew, whose house was at the bottom of the village. His name was Bežəm. He saw his uncle Rustam going off. He said ‘Uncle, where are you going?’ He said ‘That is not your business’. What was Bežəm doing? He was holding the top of a poplar tree and bending it down, young children were coming and going up the poplar, he was letting the top of the poplar go, the poplar was springing up and he was flinging the young children in all directions. Rustam said ‘Nephew, don’t do that and don’t kill all those people’. He said ‘There’s nothing to worry about. Where are you going? He said ‘I am going (since) I have a job. You go home!’ He said ‘No, uncle. I will come with you’. He tried (to persuade him and said) ‘Go back!’ He said ‘No. I will come with you’. He pulled up a poplar, put it on his shoulder and set off. Rustam looked and saw him pull up the poplar and put it on this shoulder. He said ‘Either he will be a problem or he will be outstanding’. He was a young child in name (only). They went off. They travelled for two or three days, they went and slept in a certain place. They were tired and they slept in a certain place. Now, when Rustam slept, he would be asleep for three days and three nights and not wake. He said to Bežəm, his nephew ‘You must not sleep—but I shall sleep here—lest thieves come and steal the horse’. He said ‘Fine’. Bežəm sat as the guard for his uncle, with the poplar tree in his hand, going back and forth, playing with the poplar tree, as if it were a walking stick, not a poplar tree. Then, when night fell, he saw something coming, rushing along on the back of a horse, as if ablaze, like lightning blazing with light, and people and we don’t know what were with it. That light, that fire, that thing appeared. He did not know whether it was a horse or whether there was a man on its back. It was night. He saw what seemed to be a fire, a light, and it went up and entered a cave in the mountain that was behind their backs. He (Bežəm) was there, but he could not oppose it. He stood until when three days had passed, Rustam awoke. Rustam awoke and said ‘Hey, nephew Bežəm, has anything happened? Thieves or the like?’ He said ‘Yes, uncle, the situation is like this’. He said ‘A light came in the night, coming up right here. I took this stick to strike at it, but nothing fell down, except for a few things that fell over there shining, I don’t know what it is. It went up and entered that cave over there’. He said ‘What is it?’ He went and saw that it was all gold and that some of the jewels that were hung around the neck of the girl had fallen on the ground’. He said ‘Ha, you have no business with this. Stay here now. This is not your business. Stay here now while we go to see what it is. Now Rustam went up to the entrance of the cave. Bežəm said ‘No, uncle, I will go up there with you’. He tried (to persuade him say-ing) ‘You stay’. He said ‘No. I will go up. You stay here. I will go up’. He was so obstinate. He was a young child, in name, but he was also a great warrior. He went up to the cave. He saw a man asleep. He had put his head in the lap of a girl, a very beautiful girl. The girl said ‘What are you doing here?’ I have come to bring you down and take you away’. She said to him ‘Get up and go away, go down, lest he wakes up. If this man wakes—he is a great warrior—he will kill you’. He said ‘No, by God. I shall take you down. If he is a brave man, let him get up and I shall challenge him’. He woke up. When he woke up, he saw him. He tried (to persuade him to go) ‘Go down, you are a young child. I have no inclination to kill you’. He said ‘No, by God. Either I shall kill you and take this girl or I shall not go out from here’. The man, who had kidnapped the girl, was forced (to act). He also was a great warrior. The girl was the one that Zāl loved. It was because of her that his head was all broken. He was a great warrior. He went and took her from her father and mother, he kidnapped her and carried her off. He brought her to that cave and hid her. Now, that warrior seized Bežəm. He tied his legs and hands and threw him from the entrance of the cave. He threw him from the entrance of the cave and he went down, rolling over as he went. Rustam looked and saw his nephew rolling over. He put out his hands and caught him. He caught him and released his legs and hands. He said ‘What is it?’ He said ‘The situation is like this’. He said ‘Stay here, this is not your business. I shall go up myself’. Rustam went up to the cave. He looked and saw that that man was there. When he (the other) saw him, he recognized him. He knew that he was Rustam. He knew that he was a hero, a great warrior, whom he could not defeat. He tried to beg him (saying) ‘I am your servant. Go, leave me! It is I who who have brought her. She is mine’. He said ‘(I swear) by your head and by the head of your father, this girl will not stay with you’. He struck his clubon the head of the man and killed him, then took the girl. He took the girl and brought her down, put her behind him on the back of the horse, set off and went to the land of the girl’s father. The father of the girl was also a heroic warrior and he had many warriors—(they went) to another land. His name was Aprəsyaw. Bežəm said ‘Where are we going uncle? Let’s take her back to my grandfather, to my grandfather Zāl’. He said ‘No. I shall go and take her to her father. I shall ask him for her hand. If he does not give her, I shall kill him and take her by force, then finally I shall take her back’. This was because he was such a heroic warrior and did not want to play tricks. They travelled until they reached the land of girl’s father. Now Rustam took the girl, put her on the back of the horse behind him and set off on the road. He said to his nephew Bežəm ‘Let us go to the land of Aprəsyaw, the girl’s father’. His land was far away. They travelled for days. Bežəm, his nephew, said ‘Uncle, have her wedded to you, she is for you’. He said ‘No, nephew, no. She is betrothed to my father. I shall take her to my father. But let us go and ask her father for her hand’. This is because they are tribes, they are heroic warriors, they cannot steal or plunder. He should go and ask her father’s family for her hand and then finally bring her back to his father. On account of this girl, the head of his father Zāl was broken many times. They travelled one day, two, three, until they reached the land of the girl’s father. They reached a town. They pitched their tents, in a place near the town. He said to Bežəm, his nephew ‘You stay here and my horse will stay here, while I take the girl up to the house of her father. He held the hand of the girl and went up. He asked and the people showed him the house of the girl’s father. They said ‘It is this one’. Word got to the girl’s father. They said ‘Your daughter has been brought back’. Who has brought her back? They said ‘A man has brought her back, but we do not know where the man is from, he is a great warrior’. The girl’s father went out to meet him. When he saw him, his body trembled and he was afraid. He said ‘The person who kidnapped my daughter was a great warrior. All my armies could not defeat him. How could he by himself take the girl from him. He must be a heroic warrior’. He was afraid. He (Rustam) went up and greeted him, then entered the reception room. The courtiers of the man and all his warriors were sitting in the reception room. They took the girl into a room. They did not ask him where he was from. Those people did not ask a guest ‘Where are you from?’ They sat and they brought food, and they ate. The name of the girl’s father was Aprəsyaw. He said to one of his servants, he said ‘When you bring coffee and you distribute it, put your foot on the pipe of that man and break it, break his pipe’. This was because they used to smoke a pipe, there were no cigarettes. They would fill a pipe with tobacco and smoke it. Rustam smoked his pipe. He finished it and put it on the floor. They brought coffee and gave it to him. He took the coffee to drink. The man serving the coffee put his foot on the pipe and broke it. When Rustam saw that his pipe was broken, he knelt down on his knees, put his hand on that coffee server, lifted him up and slung him onto the floor. The man died. When he did this, the chief of the land, of the town, Aprəsyaw, let’s call him the ‘headman’,—his body trembled and he was very afraid. He said ‘He is a great warrior. I cannot defeat him. He will wreak havoc with us’. Nobody spoke. The man took him (Rustam) away and he lodged there. He lodged there and that night Rustam slept in their home. He was their guest. They laid for him bedding in a room and he slept. He slept for three days without getting up. They did not dare go and wake him. Bežəm was at the bottom of the village. What does he do? He goes to one side of the village and batters the houses with the poplar tree and destroys them all, at night, on the heads of the people, then he runs back. Before daybreak, he went to sleep in his tent. Word got to the king. They said ‘One side of the village is destroyed. He went down to investigate who had destroyed it. (They said) ‘Where are the armies that have attacked us?’ They said ‘Nobody has been seen, but we know that the houses have been destroyed and no armies have been seen’. On that day (he) had gone out. The next day Bežəm went to another side of the town. Also on that day he battered the houses with the poplar tree that was in his hand and destroyed them and he destroyed the district. He then ran off and slept in his tent. Word got to the king. They said ‘A side of the village, the town, has been destroyed’. He was very afraid and said ‘Who has done this?’ They did not know who it was. Finally Rustam woke up. He woke up and the king said to Rustam ‘The situation is like this. What is happening?’ What tent is that in the field? Perhaps it was from here that all this devastation is being wrought’. Rustam said ‘I don’t know what happened. I was asleep’. The king returned and sent an army to that tent. He went down to see what was in the tent. Bežəm came out. He took his stick, the stick was a poplar tree. He smote the army, he tore them apart and threw them in all directions. The king was afraid. He said this business is being done from here’. He said to Rustam ‘Who is he?’ He said ‘He is my nephew. Why are they going down to fight with him?’ He said ‘If he is your nephew, why is he camped there and does not come here? Perhaps it is he who is destroying the houses’. He said ‘It is not him. If you have warriors and you want to fight—now, I have come to ask for the hand of your daughter, whether you want to give her or whether you fight is up to you’. He said ‘No, by God. I will not give my daughter to you. I do not know where you are from’. He said ‘Do you not know me?’ He said ‘No’. He came down, they challenged one another to fight. He went down to the field and said ‘Whoever is a warrior, let him come here and test out his mettle’. The king sent his warriors to wrestle with him. All those who went down there could not defeat him and he killed them. Rustam was a mighty warrior. (Bežəm) was going back and forth. He said to his uncle, he said ‘Uncle, leave them to me, those young people, leave them to me’. Rustam said ‘No! Go and sleep in your tent. Let them be my concern’. In the end, he was forced (to concede), since Rustam finished off all the armies of the king, nobody being able to defeat him. The king was very frightened. He sent after him and made a truce with him. He made a truce with him and said ‘I want to know who you are’. He said ‘I am Rustam son of Zāl, who used to come to seek the hand of your daughter and whom you beat and whose head you broke, (leaving) wounds in his head. I have come seeking the hand of your daughter, in order to take her to my father’. Aprəsyaw was not able to say anything. He could not oppose him. He (Rustam) was a mighty warrior. He had killed half of all his armies. He said ‘We shall give her, but to you (not to your father)’. He said ‘No. I have taken an oath. I have come to take this girl either humanely or by force to my father’. In the end he was forced (to concede) and the king gave her to him. He said ‘I have given her, whether you wish to take her for yourself or whether you wish to take her for your father’. He put her on the back of the horse and the people escorted them (out of the town) and bade them farewell, then he went on his way. He travelled for one day, two, three, and reached the land of his father. He took the girl and gave her to his father. They held a wedding for seven days and seven nights, with drum and pipe. He wedded the girl to his father. I have left it there and come here.

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xa-tuníṯa ṱ-íla ṯáya l-bàliˈ y-amríwala Rustắmo ʾu-Zàlo.ˈ Rústam brṓn-t Zā̀l-wewa.ˈ ʾánna xákma náše gabbàre-wɛwaˈ xɛlàne.ˈ paxrèyˈ xɛlàne-wɛwaˈ ʾu-gòṛe-wɛwa.ˈ gabbàre.ˈ ʾáp-xa lá-mṣaya biyèy.ˈ ʾɛ̀-gaˈ Rustắmo mtánɛ mə́nne y-ámri ʾɛ́-gət damə̀xwa,ˈ ṭḷaṯà yomáṯaˈ ʾu-ṭḷaṯà lɛlăwáṯa háwe dmìxa,ˈ là qayə́mwa,ˈ là ṛayə́šwa.ˈ bábe dìye,ˈ Zā̀l,ˈ ʾíṯwale xà-našaˈ maqrə́ṭwa káwse dìyeˈ y-amríle ḥallàqa.ˈ tíwɛle Zàloˈ qam-tắrət qáṣre dìyeˈ ʾo-ḥallàqaˈ hóle múṯyəlla xa-semàltaˈ múttəlla baṯrə̀t rušáne díye.ˈ ma-t-wéwa gòṛa,ˈ ḥalláqa là maṭyáwa ʾíḏe gu-réšət Zálo.ˈ mattúwa semálta gu-xáṣe díye ʾu-y-asə̀qwaˈ gu-réšə semàltaˈ maqrə́ṭwa káwsət Zàlo.ˈ qəm-qayə́ṣle káwse dìyeˈ xírre gu-réšət Zàloˈ ʾíṯwa šaqyàṯaˈ brinàne,ˈ gòṛe rába.ˈ mə́re ṭla-Zàlo:ˈ Zàloˈ ʾánna mòdila gu-réšux,ˈ ʾánna šaqyàṯa.ˈ módila ʾánna brinàne?ˈ mə̀reˈ hadíya quṣ-kàwsi!ˈ ʾaw-lɛ̀le šúlux.ˈ mə́re là-b-alaha.ˈ ʾən-lá galə́tli ʾánna šaqyáṯa módi gu-rèšux,ˈ ʾánna brinánət mòdilaˈ w-ʾáti hátxa gabbàra,ˈ ʾu-ʾɛ́ni hátxa twíra rèšuxˈ wíḏa brináne gu-rèšux,ˈ mə́re ʾən-là galə́tli,ˈ ʾána lɛ̀-qɛṣənne káwsux.ˈ zədyále maqáṣte dìyeˈ mə́re lá qɛṣə̀nne.ˈ kàze.ˈ qúṣli rèši!ˈ gúda máre naṯyàṯɛle.ˈ mə́re là-b-alaha,ˈ lá qɛṣə́nne rèšux,ˈ ʾən-qaṭlə̀tli.ˈ là qɛṣə́nne káwsux,ˈ ʾə́lla ṱ-amrə́tli ʾánna ma-brinànela gu-réšux.ˈ mə̀reˈ ṱ-amrə̀nnuxˈ de-hàyyoˈ tu-tìwa.ˈ mə́re ʾána băyə́nwala xa-bràta,ˈ brátət ʾAprəsyàwˈ t-fə̀llən ʾáṯṛa,ˈ xa-ʾáṯṛa rə̀ḥqa-wewa.ˈ mə́re y-azə́nwa mɛṯoyə̀lla,ˈ lɛ̀ yawíwala ʾə́lli.ˈ y-azə́nwa b-xɛ́la mɛṯòyəllaˈ palšə̀xwa.ˈ ʾíṯwaley ʾáp-ʾani náše ferə́sse ʾu-gabbàre.ˈ palšə̀xwa.ˈ ʾu-ʾánna brináne kúlla d-àn šarrăwáṯaˈ t-maxɛ̀waˈ murzăwáṯa gu-rèši.ˈ ʾu-ríqən ʾə̀ṯya.ˈ bráta làn-məṣya ṱ-in-múṯyəlla.ˈ Rustắmo bróne dìyeˈ hóle gu-bɛ́ṯa ṛìšle,ˈ qəm-šămèla ʾáyya ṣáwṯa.ˈ ʾimə-šmiyále kríble ràba.ˈ sab-ʾáp-ʾaw rába ferə̀ssa-wewaˈ ʾu-xɛlàna.ˈ čú-naša gu-d-o-ʾáṯṛa là-maṣe bíye.ˈ mə́re nə́mu ʾíṯ xa-náša ferə́ssa máṣe táwər réšət bàbi?ˈ ʾu-plíṭɛle b-kɛ̀rba.ˈ ʾímə ṱ-ìle plíṭa kríba kríba,ˈ rúše díye qíṯɛle b-yaṣílət tằra,ˈ tlìxɛle gúda.ˈ ma-t-wéwa zàxma,ˈ gúda tlìxle.ˈ plìṭle.ˈ Zálo mə́re ṭla-ḥallàqaˈ xzèlux!ˈ lá-məri gúda máre naṯyàṯɛle?ˈ hóle šmíyəlla Rustằmo,ˈ ṱ-áwəḏ fə̀tne.ˈ Rustắmo mə́re ṭla-bábe dìyeˈ gắrəg ʾámrət ʾay-bráta ʾɛ̀kɛla.ˈ nə́mu ʾíṯ xa-náša máṣe táwər réšət Zálo ʾu-Rustắmo sàxi?ˈ mə́re bábi hā́l ʾu-qə́ṣṣət hàtxɛla.ˈ kúlla tunìṯaˈ d-ɛ-bráta qəm-mtanèlaˈ ʾu-ʾáṯṛa ʾɛ̀kɛle,ˈ ʾu-ʾɛ̀ni-wewa twírəlle réše díye.ˈ Rustắmo kríbɛle ràba-wˈ qìmɛle,ˈ plìṭɛle.ˈ ʾə́ṯyɛle zàla-wˈ šqíləlle súse dìyeˈ ʾu-də́ryəlle sárga l-xàṣe-wˈ gùrza.ˈ ʾɛ́-ga ʾíṯwa gúrza m-geb-sɛ̀pa.ˈ xa-qɛ́sa rìxɛle,ˈ gu-réše díye gùttɛle,ˈ qìrɛle.ˈ y-ámriwala gùrza.ˈ ʾáy-ži šqìləlla.ˈ čú-naša lá-mṣewa taqə́lwala ʾa-gùrzət Rustằmo.ˈ ʾarbí baṭmáne yúqra dìya-wewa.ˈ yáʿni záwda m-əmmà-kiloʾeˈ yúqra d-ɛ-gúrze dìye-wawa.ˈ qímle zàla,ˈ zìlleˈ tíwa xāṣ-sùsa,ˈ zála plíṭle m-màṯa.ˈ ʾítwale xa-xurzàya,ˈ bɛ́ṯe díye šə́ttət màṯa-wewa.ˈ šə́mme díye Bèžəm-wewa.ˈ qəm-xazéle xále díye Rustắmo zàla.ˈ mə́re xáli lɛ̀kɛt zála?ˈ mə́re ʾáw lɛ̀le šúlux.ˈ Béžəm módile wàḏa?ˈ hóle dwáqəlle réšət xórta makyòpəlle,ˈ yalúnke zóre hola-ṯáya ʾu-sáqa b-à-xorta,ˈ marpòyəlle réšət xórta,ˈ xórta hóla zyàna,ˈ ʾan-yalúnke zóre kùt-xa hóle zdáyəlle bar-ḏá-gotət dúnye.ˈ Rustắmo mə̀reˈ xwàrza!ˈ lá-wuḏ hàtxaˈ qṭúl ʾanna-bnónə náše kùlla.ˈ mə́re lìtla xámˈ lɛ̀kɛt zála?ˈ mə́re ʾána ṱ-ázən ʾítli šùla.ˈ ʾáti si-bɛ̀ṯa!ˈ mə́re là xáli.ˈ ṱ-áṯən mə̀nnux.ˈ káze qlùbˈ mə́re là.ˈ hár ṱ-áṯən mə̀nnux.ˈ qímɛle šlìxəlla xórtaˈ múttəlla rəš-rúše-w zìlɛle.ˈ xírre Rustằmoˈ qəm-xazéle ʾa-xórta šlíxəlla múttəlla rəš-rùše.ˈ mə́re ʾáwwa balàyɛleˈ yan-ʾáwwa dáwəq wàjju.ˈ ʾu-ʾáwwa ṭəfl-zòra-wewa b-šə́mma.ˈ ʾu-zìlela.ˈ zílela xá-yoma tré ʾu-ṭḷàṯa,ˈ zíle dmíxela xà-dukṯa.ˈ čèlay,ˈ dmíxlay xa-dúkṯa.ˈ béna Rustắmo ʾɛ́-gət dàməxˈ ṭḷaṯà yomáṯaˈ ʾu-ṭḷaṯá lɛlăwáṯa y-áwe dmíxa lɛ-ṛàyəš.ˈ mə́re ṭla-Béžəm xwarzáye dìyeˈ ʾáti də-la-dàmxeti,ˈ ʾána dámxən làxxaˈ t-lá-ʾaṯi genàweˈ ganwìle súsa.ˈ mə́re spày.ˈ Béžəm hóle tìwaˈ ḥắras-ile t-xále dìye,ˈ ʾu-ʾá-xorta hó-b-ʾíḏe dìye,ˈ hóle zála-w ṯàya,ˈ mṭawóle b-a-xòrta,ˈ ʾáy ʿal-ʾasā́s kupále dìyelaˈ là xórta.ˈ xá-bena píšle lɛ̀leˈ qəm-xazéle xa-mə́ndi ṯàyaˈ ráqa xāṣ-sùsa,ˈ ʾax-lhàya,ˈ ʾáx-bə́rqa lháya bèṛa,ˈ mə́nne díye nàše,ˈ lɛ́ḏəx mòdi.ˈ ʾu-ṯéle ʾo-bèṛaˈ ʾo-nùra,ˈ ʾo-mə́ndi la-ḏíle sùsa-wewaˈ náša-wewa l-xàṣe.ˈ b-lɛ̀le-wewa.ˈ xzéle ʾax-núra béṛa-w síqle sìqleˈ wírre gu-xa-gə́ppa gu-d-o-ṭúra t-wéwa báṯər xaṣèy.ˈ hóle tàma.ˈ ʾáwwa là-mṣele čú-məndi bíye.ˈ klèleˈ hal-tímla ṭḷáṯa yomàṯaˈ Rustắmo ṛìšle.ˈ ṛíšle Rustằmoˈ mə́re ha-xwarzáya Bèžəmˈ líṯ wíya čù-məndi,ˈ genáwe hàle?ˈ mə́re he-b-àlahaˈ xáli hā́l ʾu-qə́ṣṣət hàtxɛla.ˈ mə́re xa-núra ʾə́ṯyɛle b-lɛ̀leˈ ʾax-ʾáxxa sàqa.ˈ ʾána šqìlənneˈ ʾáwwa qaṭíya mxáya ʾə́lle dìye.ˈ ʾu-lɛ̀le npíla čú-məndi,ˈ ʾína xákma məndiyáne hóla npíle tămáha mazlòqe,ˈ lan-ḏaʾa mòdile.ˈ hole-síqa wírre gu-d-wàha gə́ppa.ˈ ʾáwwa mə̀reˈ mòdi?ˈ zílle xzéle ʾína kúlla dàweˈ ʾu-m-ánna mujawharā̀tˈ t-wɛ́wa tə́lye b-qḏálə d-ɛ-bràta,ˈ npíle l-ằra.ˈ mə́re há ʾàyyaˈ lìtlux šúlaˈ klí díya ṱ-ásqəx xázəx módile tàma.ˈ hadíya qìmɛle Rustắmoˈ síqa l-tắrət gə̀ppa.ˈ Béžəm mə́re lá xáli ʾàna ṱ-ásqən táma.ˈ káze kli-ʾàtiˈ mə́re lá ʾana-ṱ-àsqenaˈ ʾáti tu-làxxa.ˈ ʾána ṱ-àsqena.ˈ hátxa rəqqiyàna-wewa,ˈ yalúnka zòra-wewa b-šə́mmaˈ ʾína ʾáp-aw ferə̀ssa-wewa.ˈ qímɛle síqa síqa gu-d-áw gə̀ppa,ˈ ʾína ʾáw xə́zyəlle xa-nàšaˈ dmìxaˈ réše díye múttəlle gu-xánət ḏa-bràta,ˈ ḏa-bráta rába xàmṯa.ˈ ʾa-bráta mə̀raˈ ʾáti mùt wáḏa láxxa?ˈ ʾə́ṯyən ʾáti maṣlə̀nnəx,ˈ nablə̀nnəx.ˈ mə́ra ʾə́lle dìyeˈ qu-qìma!ˈ sìgən ʾáti!ˈ ṣlìgena,ˈ t-lá-ṛayəš ʾàwwa.ˈ ʾáwwa náša ʾən-ṛìšleˈ ʾáwwa ferə̀ssɛleˈ ʾati-qaṭə̀llux.ˈ mə́re lá b-àlaha,ˈ ʾə́lla maṣlə́nnəx ʾàna.ˈ ʾən-ʾíle ʾúrza gáwṛa xoš-qàyəm,ˈ mjarbə̀nne.ˈ ʾaw-ṛìšle.ˈ ʾíman-t ṛíšle qəm-xazèle.ˈ káze xoš-ṣlìgənˈ yalúnka ʾáti zòrɛwət.ˈ la-hanéli qaṭlə̀nnuxˈ mə́re lá b-àlaha.ˈ ʾən-qaṭlə́nnux ʾáyya bráta šaqlə̀nnaˈ ʾən-la-pálṭən m-àxxa.ˈ píšle májbur ʾáp ʾaw-náša t-wéwa múrqəlla ʾa-bràta.ˈ ʾáp-ʾaw ferə̀ssa-wewa rába.ˈ ʾáyya báxta băyéwala Zàlo.ˈ twíra twíra réše díye m-rēš-d-àyya-wawaˈ ʾáwwa ferə̀ssa-wewaˈ zíla šqíləlla mən-bába-w yə̀mma-wˈ jlíwəlla mùṯyəlla.ˈ múrəlla gu-d-o-gə̀ppaˈ mṭùšyəlla.ˈ hadíya ʾáw ferə̀ssaˈ qíma dwìqəlle Béžəm,ˈ síṛəlla ʾáqle w-iṯàṯe,ˈ zə́dyəlle b-tắrət gə̀ppa.ˈ zə́dyəlle b-tắrət gə́ppa-w ṣə̀lyɛle,ˈ mčonə́gla mčonə̀gla.ˈ xìrreˈ Rustắmo ʾína xwarzáya mčangòle,ˈ mə́xyəlle qáple bìyeˈ dwìqəlle.ˈ dwìqəlleˈ ʾu-šə́ryəlla ʾaqláṯe w-iṯáṯe mə̀reˈ ha-mòdi?ˈ mə́re hā́l ʾu-qə́ṣṣət hàtxɛla.ˈ mə́re kli-ʾaw-lɛ̀le šúlux,ˈ ṱ-ásqən ʾána b-gàni.ˈ qímɛle Rustằmoˈ ʾu-sìqɛle.ˈ gu-d-o-gə́ppa xírre ʾina-ʾo-náša tàma.ˈ ʾáwwa ʾɛ-dánət qəm-xazèle,ˈ qəm-yăḏèle,ˈ ḏíle ṱ-ile-Rustằmo.ˈ yăḏéwa xa-náša gabbàrɛle,ˈ ferə̀ssa,ˈ lá-mṣe bíye dìye.ˈ káze wáḏa hìwi mə́nneˈ ʾána xulàmux.ˈ sìgən,ˈ šùqliˈ ʾu-ʾáyya hon-múṯyəlla ʾàna,ˈ dìyila.ˈ mə́re b-rèšuxˈ b-réšət bàbux,ˈ ʾáyya bráta la-pɛ́ša bìyux.ˈ qìmaˈ mə́xyəlla gúrza gu-réšət d-ó-naša qṭìləlle.ˈ ʾu-ʾa-bráta šqìləlla.ˈ šqìləlla,ˈ muṣə̀lyəlla,ˈ múttəlla báṯre díye xāṣ-sùsaˈ ʾu-zílɛle ṱ-ázəl ʾáṯṛət bàbə d-ɛ-bráta.ˈ bábə d-á-brata ʾíle ʾáp-ʾaw gabbàra-wˈ ʾítle náše rábe gabbàre,ˈ ta-ʾáṯṛa xrèna,ˈ šə́mme díye ʾAprəsyàw.ˈ Béžəm mə̀reˈ lɛ̀kəx zála xáli?ˈ ʾáy maqəlbə̀xlaˈ nablə̀xlaˈ ʾáyya ṭla-sàwi,ˈ ṭla-sáwi Zàlo.ˈ mə́re là.ˈ ṱ-ázən nablə́nna kəs-bába dìya.ˈ ṭalbə̀nna mə́nne díye.ˈ ʾən-lɛ̀le yawə́lla,ˈ qaṭlə̀nne,ˈ šaqlə́nna b-xɛ̀la-wˈ xaráye maqəlbə̀nna.ˈ sab-hátxa gabbàra-wewa,ˈ lá-băye ṱ-awə́ḏwa lèbe.ˈ ʾu-zílela ha-ṱ-ázi máṭi l-ʾáṯṛət … d-áw … bábə d-a-bràta.ˈ hadíya Rustằmoˈ šqilàle brátaˈ muttále xāṣ-súsa báṯre dìyeˈ ʾu-zílla b-ʾùrxa.ˈ mə́re ṭla-xwarzáye díye Bèžəmˈ ṱ-ázəx l-ʾáṯṛət ʾAprəsyáw bábət bràta.ˈ ʾáṯṛe díye rə̀ḥqɛle,ˈ zílla b-yomàṯa.ˈ Béžəm xwarzáye díye mə̀reˈ xàli,ˈ bárəxla ʾə̀lluxˈ ʾáyya ṭlàluxˈ mə̀reˈ là xwárza,ˈ là.ˈ ʾáyya ṭlíbtət bàbila.ˈ nablə́nna ṭla-bàbi.ˈ bas-ṱ-àzexiˈ ṭalbə́xla m-bába dìya.ˈ sab-ʾánna ʾaširàttela,ˈ náše gabbàrela,ˈ là-baryaˈ gànwiˈ ʾən-sàlbi.ˈ ṱ-ázəl ṭalə́bla m-be-bába dìya.ˈ xaráye mɛṯèlaˈ nabə́lla ṭla-bábe dìye.ˈ b-rəš-d-àyya brátaˈ réšət bábe díye t-Zàloˈ ṯéle twíra ràbe gáye.ˈ zílela yomàṯa,ˈ xá-yoma-w tré ʾu-ṭḷàṯa,ˈ há-ṱ-ila mə́ṭye ʾáṯṛət bába d-a-bràta.ˈ mə́ṭyela ḏa-mḏìta.ˈ qímela mə́xyela k̭winày,ˈ xá-dukṯa qúrbət … d-à mḏíta.ˈ mə́re ṭla-Bèžəm,ˈ xwarzáye dìye,ˈ ʾáti tú-tiwa làxxa.ˈ ʾu-súsi páyəš làxxaˈ ʾu-ʾána bráta masqə́nna be-bába dìya.ˈ qìmɛleˈ dwíqəlla ʾīḏ-bràtaˈ ʾu-síqa sìqa.ˈ mbùqrɛle,ˈ moxə́zyəlle ʾan-náše bɛ́ṯət bábə d-a-bràta.ˈ mə́ra ʾàwwɛle.ˈ síqle xábra l-bábət bràtaˈ mə́ra brátux mùṯya.ˈ mə́re ʾɛ́ni muṯyàle?ˈ mə́ra xá-naša hóle mùṯyəllaˈ ʾu-lɛ́ḏəxle ʾáwwa náša m-ɛ̀kɛle,ˈ xa-ferə̀ssa.ˈ bábət bráta plíṭle qámṯe díye qəm-xazèle,ˈ mguzgə́zla lášše díye zdìle.ˈ mə́re ʾo-ṱ-íle múrqəlla bráti rába gabbàra-wewa.ˈ kúlla ʾaskarwáṯi lɛwa mə́ṣye bìye.ˈ ʾáwwa màṭo xóḏe díye mə́ṣya šqílle ʾɛ-bráta mən-d-áw,ˈ lázəm ʾawwa-ràba ferə́ssɛle.ˈ zdìle.ˈ qíma sìqɛle.ˈ də́ryɛle šlàma-ʾəlle,ˈ wíra tíwa gu-dìwənˈ ʾu-ʾə́ṯyela guṛàneˈ d-o-náša-w ferə́sse dìyeˈ kúlla tíwe gu-dìwən-ila.ˈ ʾu-bráta múrəlla gu-xa-mànzəl.ˈ ʾánna lɛ́la mbaqórəlle m-ɛ̀kɛwətˈ ʾan-náše le-y-mbáqri mən-ʾárxa ʾáti m-ɛ̀kɛwət.ˈ tíwela múṯye ʾixàla-wˈ xìlela.ˈ ʾaw-bába d-ɛ́-brata šə́mme díye ʾAprəsyàw.ˈ hóle mə́re ṭla-xá xuláme dìyeˈ mə́re ʾa-dánət mɛ́ṯeti qàwa,ˈ mpằleti,ˈ mattə́tla ʾáqlux rəš-qalúnka d-áwwa náša torə̀tle,ˈ torə́tle qalúnke dìye.ˈ sab-ʾáni garšíwa qălùnka,ˈ jigára lìtwa.ˈ qalúnka maḷɛ́wa tŭ̀tunˈ ʾu-garšìwa.ˈ Rustắmo qalúnke díye grìšle.ˈ rzìgle,ˈ qəm-mattúle hátxa l-ʾằra.ˈ múṯye qàweˈ yáwi ʾə́lle dìye.ˈ šqílle qáwa ṭla-šàte,ˈ ʾo-qáwači qəm-mattúla ʾáqle rəš-qalùnkaˈ qəm-tawə̀rre.ˈ Rustắmo ʾɛ-dánə xzéle qalúnke twìra,ˈ bríkɛwa rəš-bə̀rke,ˈ də́ryəlla ʾíḏe díye l-d-ò-qawači,ˈ tqìləlle,ˈ mə́xyəlle l-ʾằra.ˈ mìṯɛle ʾo-náša.ˈ ʾɛ-dánə ṱ-íle wíḏəlle ʾáwwa šùla,ˈ ʾo-góṛa d-à-maṯa,ˈ d-à-mḏita,ˈ ʾAprəsyàw,ˈ ṱ-amrə́xle ràyyəs,ˈ mguzgáztɛla lášše dìye,ˈ zdìyɛle rába.ˈ mə́re ʾáwwa ferə̀ssɛle,ˈ ʾáwwa lá-mṣən bíye dìye.ˈ ṱ-áwəḏ baláye biyɛ̀ni.ˈ ʾu-ʾáp-xa lɛ́le mṣùṯa-wˈ qímɛle ʾó-naša šqíləlle nùbləlle.ˈ tíwɛle tàma.ˈ tíwɛle tàma,ˈ ʾo-lɛ́le dmíxɛle Rustằmoˈ kəs-d-àni,ˈ ʾárxa diyèyile.ˈ də́ryəlle šwíṯa gu-xà-manzəl,ˈ dmìxɛle.ˈ ʾáw ʾi-dáməx ṭḷaṯà yomáṯa la-qàyəm.ˈ w-ánna là-ṣbara ṱ-ázi mărəšíle.ˈ Béžəm hóle šə́ttət máṯa mòdile wáḏa?ˈ hóle zàlaˈ ḏa-gótət màṯaˈ mxáyəlla ʾɛ́-xòrtaˈ gu-d-an-bàte,ˈ kúlla tlàxəlla,ˈ b-lɛ̀leˈ b-rəš-nàše,ˈ ʾu-ráqa ṯàyɛle.ˈ qam-páyəš yóma ṯáya dmáxa gu-čádre dìye.ˈ xábra mṭéle l-màlka.ˈ mə́ra ḏa-gótət màṯa hola-tlíxta.ˈ ṣléle ṭàyaˈ ʾɛ̀nile tlíxəlla ʾáyya.ˈ kɛ̀la ʾaskarwáṯaˈ ʾə́ṯye ṭalbɛ̀niˈ ʾu-mára lɛ̀le-xəzya čù-nášaˈ bas-yắḏəx hóla tlíxe ʾánna bàteˈ ʾu-lɛ̀la-xəzye ʾaskarwáṯa.ˈ ʾó-yoma zìlle.ˈ yómə trèˈ zílle Béžəm xa-góta xéta d-a-mḏìta.ˈ ʾap-ʾo-yóma ʾa-xórta ṱ-ìla b-ʾíḏe díyeˈ mxáyəlla gu-d-ánna báte tlaxə̀lla,ˈ ʾap-a-măḥálle tlixàle.ˈ ʾu-ríqle zìlleˈ dmíxle gu-čádre dìye.ˈ síqle xábra mṭéle l-màlka,ˈ mə̀raˈ ḏa-gótət màṯa,ˈ t-mḏìta,ˈ hola-tlìxta.ˈ ʾáwwa zdíle ràbaˈ mə́re ʾánna … ʾɛ̀nile wáḏəlle ʾáwwa šúla?ˈ la-ḏíla ʾɛ̀nile.ˈ xaràyeˈ ṛíšle Rùstămo.ˈ ṛìšle,ˈ ʾó-malka mə́re ṭla-Rùstămoˈ hāl ʾu-qə́ṣṣət hàtxaˈ mòdi qə́ṣṣət?ˈ ʾáyya mà čadrɛ́la gu-dášta?ˈ bálki ṱ-íla mən-tàma tráṣa ʾánna xráwe.ˈ Rustắmo mə́re ʾána lè-y-yăḏən módile bə́ryaˈ ṭlìyənwa.ˈ qlíble málka mšodə́rre ʾàskarˈ qam-d-à-čadra.ˈ ṣlèleˈ ṭla-t-xáze mòdi gu-d-a-čàdra.ˈ Béžəm plìṭleˈ qəm-šaqə́lle ʾo-qaṭíye dìyeˈ ʾaw-qaṭíya xòrtɛla.ˈ kréle gu-d-a-ʾàskarˈ qəm-mpatpə̀tlaˈ kút-xa qəm-xašə́lle ḏa-gòta.ˈ málka zdìle.ˈ mə́re ʾáwwa šúla m-àxxɛle tráṣa.ˈ mə́re ṭla-Rustằmoˈ ʾɛ̀nile ʾáwwa?ˈ mə́re ʾáwwa xwarzàyile.ˈ ṭla-mò ṣláya pláša mə́nne díye?ˈ mə́re madám ṱ-íle xwarzàyuxˈ ṭla-módi tíwa tàmaˈ lɛ́le ṯáya làxxa,ˈ bálki ṱ-ile-ʾàwwa tláxəlla ʾánna báte.ˈ mə́re lɛ́le ʾàw.ˈ ʾən-ʾítlux ferə́sse bắyət pàlšət,ˈ hadíya ʾána hon-ʾə̀ṯyaˈ ṭlába bràtux,ˈ bắyət yawə̀tla,ˈ bắyət pálšət kèfux!ˈ mə́re là b-álaha.ˈ ʾána bráti lè-y-yawənna-llux.ˈ le-y-yăḏə́nnɛxu m-ɛkɛ̀tu.ˈ mə́re lè-y-yăḏətli?ˈ mə́re là.ˈ ṣə̀lyɛleˈ ʾáni qári qắbux l-ġḏàḏe.ˈ ṣə́lyɛle gu-dàštaˈ mə́re kú-ṱ-ile ferə́ssa ʾáṯe ʾàxxane,ˈ mjarə̀bla gáne.ˈ málka mšadòrəlleˈ ferə́sse dìyeˈ ṭla-gḏàla.ˈ kú-ṱ-ile ṣláya tàmaˈ lɛ̀la mṣáya bíye díyeˈ hóle qṭàləlla.ˈ Rustắmo ferə̀ssɛle.ˈ zála-w plàṭaˈ mə́re ṭla-xále dìyeˈ mə́re xàliˈ šúqla ʾánna ṭlàli,ˈ ʾan-yalúnke zòre.ˈ šúqla ṭlàli.ˈ Rustắmo mə́re làˈ si-dmúx gu-čàdra,ˈ ʾánna k̭áwa xàmmi.ˈ béna xaràyeˈ píšle màjburˈ kúl ʾaskarwáṯa d-o-málka qəm-tayə̀mla,ˈ lɛ̀la mṣáya b-Rùstămo.ˈ málka zdíle ràbaˈ mšodə́rre bàṯreˈ wídle ṣóloh mə́nne dìye.ˈ wídle ṣóloh mə̀nne,ˈ mə́re ʾána bắyən t-yắḏen ʾáti ʾɛ̀niwət.ˈ mə́re ʾána ʾíwən Rustắmo brōn-t-Zàlo,ˈ t-y-aṯéwa ṭlábəlla bràtuxˈ ʾu-t-maxìtuwaleˈ ʾu-réše díye torìtuwale,ˈ brináne gu-rèše.ˈ hon-ʾə́ṯya ṭlábəlla bràtux,ˈ nablə́nna ṭla-bàbi.ˈ ʾAprəsyàwˈ lə́š-ile mṣáya ṱ-ámər čù-məndi.ˈ lɛ̀le mṣáya bíye díye.ˈ ferə̀ssɛle.ˈ ʾu-ʾaskarwáṯa díye kúlla pálga qṭilìle.ˈ mə́re ʾáxni t-yawə́xla ʾína ṭlàlux.ˈ mə́re là.ˈ ʾána hon-yə̀myaˈ ʾáyya bráta hon-ʾə́ṯya nablə̀nnaˈ ʾən-b-našùṯa,ˈ ʾən-b-xɛ̀la,ˈ nablə́nna ṭla-bàbi.ˈ bə́nta xaráye píšle màjburˈ málka qəm-yawə́lla ʾə́lle dìye.ˈ mə́re ʾána hiwàli,ˈ bắyət nábəlla ṭla-gànuxˈ bắyət nábəlla ṭla-bàbux.ˈ qìmɛle,ˈ múttəlla xāṣ-sùsa,ˈ ʾu-mupə́šṭəlla ʾan-nàšeˈ ʾu-ṭlíbela xáṭər mənnèy,ˈ ʾu-zìlɛle.ˈ zìlɛleˈ xá-yoma-w tré-w ṭḷàṯa.ˈ ʾə́ṯyɛle məṭyɛle ʾáṯṛət bábe dìye.ˈ ʾu-núbləlla ʾa-bràta,ˈ híwəlla ṭla-bábe dìye.ˈ wíḏela xlùlaˈ šawwà yomáṯa-wˈ šawwà lɛlăwàṯa-wˈ dáwla-w zòrna.ˈ ʾu-qəm-magwə̀rra l-bábe díyeˈ ʾa-bràta.ˈ ʾu-ʾána šwiqáli tàmaˈ ʾu-ṯéli làxxa.ˈ

Translation:

A story that comes to my mind is called Rustam and Zāl, Rustam was the son of Zāl. These were mighty heroic warriors, their bodies were strong and huge. (They were) heroic warriors, nobody could defeat them. Now, they say of Rustam that when he slept, he would be asleep for three days and three nights, without getting up, without waking. His father Zāl had a person who used to cut his hair, called a barber. Zāl sat before his palace. The barber brought a ladder and placed it behind his shoulders. Since he was so large, the barber’s hand could not reach the head of Zāl. He would place a ladder on his back and climb up the ladder to cut the hair of Zāl. He cut his hair and looked at the head of Zāl. (He saw) that there were scars of enormous wounds. He said to Zāl ‘Zāl, what are these scars on your head? What are these wounds?’ He said ‘Now cut my hair! It is not your business’. He said ‘No, by God. If you do not reveal what these scars on your head are, what these wounds are from, when you are such a heroic warrior, and who broke your head, made wounds on your head …’, he said ‘If you do not reveal this to me, I shall not cut your hair’. He threw his scissors down and said ‘I shall not cut it’. He tried (to persuade him and said) ‘Cut (the hair on) my head! The wall has ears’. He said ‘No, by God. I shall not cut (the hair on) your head, even if you kill me. I shall not cut your hair, unless you tell me what these wounds are on your head’. He said ‘I’ll tell you. Come, sit down’. He said ‘I used to love a girl, the daughter of Aprəsyaw, of such-and-such a place, which was a distant place’. He said ‘I used to go to bring her back, but they did not give her to me. I used to go to bring her by force and we would fight. They also had warriors and heroic people. We used to fight. These wounds are all from those battles, in which they struck iron balls on my head. I fled and came back. I could not bring back the girl’. Rustam, his son, who was in the house, woke up and heard this conversation. When he heard it he became very angry, since he also was a strong warrior. Nobody in that land could defeat him. He said ‘Is there a warrior who could break the head of my father?’ He went out in anger. When he went out in great anger, his shoulder hit the side of the door and the wall was demolished. Since he was so huge, the wall was destroyed. He went out and Zāl said to the barber ‘You see! Didn’t I say that the wall has ears? Rustam has heard and he will make trouble’. Rustam said to his father ‘You must tell me where that girl is. Is there somebody who can break the head of Zāl while Rustam is alive?’ He said ‘My dear, the story is like this. He related all of the story about that girl, told where the place was and who had broken his head. Rustam became very angry. He got up and went out. He came back and took his horse. He put the saddle and the club on its back. At that time the club (_gurza_) was in use rather than the sword. This was a long piece of wood, with a ball at its end, which was tar. It was called a _gurza_. He took this. Nobody could lift that club of Rustam. Its weight was forty batmans, that is the weight of that clubof his was more than one hundred kilos. He went off and sat on the back of the horse. He went off and left the village. He had a nephew, whose house was at the bottom of the village. His name was Bežəm. He saw his uncle Rustam going off. He said ‘Uncle, where are you going?’ He said ‘That is not your business’. What was Bežəm doing? He was holding the top of a poplar tree and bending it down, young children were coming and going up the poplar, he was letting the top of the poplar go, the poplar was springing up and he was flinging the young children in all directions. Rustam said ‘Nephew, don’t do that and don’t kill all those people’. He said ‘There’s nothing to worry about. Where are you going? He said ‘I am going (since) I have a job. You go home!’ He said ‘No, uncle. I will come with you’. He tried (to persuade him and said) ‘Go back!’ He said ‘No. I will come with you’. He pulled up a poplar, put it on his shoulder and set off. Rustam looked and saw him pull up the poplar and put it on this shoulder. He said ‘Either he will be a problem or he will be outstanding’. He was a young child in name (only). They went off. They travelled for two or three days, they went and slept in a certain place. They were tired and they slept in a certain place. Now, when Rustam slept, he would be asleep for three days and three nights and not wake. He said to Bežəm, his nephew ‘You must not sleep—but I shall sleep here—lest thieves come and steal the horse’. He said ‘Fine’. Bežəm sat as the guard for his uncle, with the poplar tree in his hand, going back and forth, playing with the poplar tree, as if it were a walking stick, not a poplar tree. Then, when night fell, he saw something coming, rushing along on the back of a horse, as if ablaze, like lightning blazing with light, and people and we don’t know what were with it. That light, that fire, that thing appeared. He did not know whether it was a horse or whether there was a man on its back. It was night. He saw what seemed to be a fire, a light, and it went up and entered a cave in the mountain that was behind their backs. He (Bežəm) was there, but he could not oppose it. He stood until when three days had passed, Rustam awoke. Rustam awoke and said ‘Hey, nephew Bežəm, has anything happened? Thieves or the like?’ He said ‘Yes, uncle, the situation is like this’. He said ‘A light came in the night, coming up right here. I took this stick to strike at it, but nothing fell down, except for a few things that fell over there shining, I don’t know what it is. It went up and entered that cave over there’. He said ‘What is it?’ He went and saw that it was all gold and that some of the jewels that were hung around the neck of the girl had fallen on the ground’. He said ‘Ha, you have no business with this. Stay here now. This is not your business. Stay here now while we go to see what it is. Now Rustam went up to the entrance of the cave. Bežəm said ‘No, uncle, I will go up there with you’. He tried (to persuade him say-ing) ‘You stay’. He said ‘No. I will go up. You stay here. I will go up’. He was so obstinate. He was a young child, in name, but he was also a great warrior. He went up to the cave. He saw a man asleep. He had put his head in the lap of a girl, a very beautiful girl. The girl said ‘What are you doing here?’ I have come to bring you down and take you away’. She said to him ‘Get up and go away, go down, lest he wakes up. If this man wakes—he is a great warrior—he will kill you’. He said ‘No, by God. I shall take you down. If he is a brave man, let him get up and I shall challenge him’. He woke up. When he woke up, he saw him. He tried (to persuade him to go) ‘Go down, you are a young child. I have no inclination to kill you’. He said ‘No, by God. Either I shall kill you and take this girl or I shall not go out from here’. The man, who had kidnapped the girl, was forced (to act). He also was a great warrior. The girl was the one that Zāl loved. It was because of her that his head was all broken. He was a great warrior. He went and took her from her father and mother, he kidnapped her and carried her off. He brought her to that cave and hid her. Now, that warrior seized Bežəm. He tied his legs and hands and threw him from the entrance of the cave. He threw him from the entrance of the cave and he went down, rolling over as he went. Rustam looked and saw his nephew rolling over. He put out his hands and caught him. He caught him and released his legs and hands. He said ‘What is it?’ He said ‘The situation is like this’. He said ‘Stay here, this is not your business. I shall go up myself’. Rustam went up to the cave. He looked and saw that that man was there. When he (the other) saw him, he recognized him. He knew that he was Rustam. He knew that he was a hero, a great warrior, whom he could not defeat. He tried to beg him (saying) ‘I am your servant. Go, leave me! It is I who who have brought her. She is mine’. He said ‘(I swear) by your head and by the head of your father, this girl will not stay with you’. He struck his clubon the head of the man and killed him, then took the girl. He took the girl and brought her down, put her behind him on the back of the horse, set off and went to the land of the girl’s father. The father of the girl was also a heroic warrior and he had many warriors—(they went) to another land. His name was Aprəsyaw. Bežəm said ‘Where are we going uncle? Let’s take her back to my grandfather, to my grandfather Zāl’. He said ‘No. I shall go and take her to her father. I shall ask him for her hand. If he does not give her, I shall kill him and take her by force, then finally I shall take her back’. This was because he was such a heroic warrior and did not want to play tricks. They travelled until they reached the land of girl’s father. Now Rustam took the girl, put her on the back of the horse behind him and set off on the road. He said to his nephew Bežəm ‘Let us go to the land of Aprəsyaw, the girl’s father’. His land was far away. They travelled for days. Bežəm, his nephew, said ‘Uncle, have her wedded to you, she is for you’. He said ‘No, nephew, no. She is betrothed to my father. I shall take her to my father. But let us go and ask her father for her hand’. This is because they are tribes, they are heroic warriors, they cannot steal or plunder. He should go and ask her father’s family for her hand and then finally bring her back to his father. On account of this girl, the head of his father Zāl was broken many times. They travelled one day, two, three, until they reached the land of the girl’s father. They reached a town. They pitched their tents, in a place near the town. He said to Bežəm, his nephew ‘You stay here and my horse will stay here, while I take the girl up to the house of her father. He held the hand of the girl and went up. He asked and the people showed him the house of the girl’s father. They said ‘It is this one’. Word got to the girl’s father. They said ‘Your daughter has been brought back’. Who has brought her back? They said ‘A man has brought her back, but we do not know where the man is from, he is a great warrior’. The girl’s father went out to meet him. When he saw him, his body trembled and he was afraid. He said ‘The person who kidnapped my daughter was a great warrior. All my armies could not defeat him. How could he by himself take the girl from him. He must be a heroic warrior’. He was afraid. He (Rustam) went up and greeted him, then entered the reception room. The courtiers of the man and all his warriors were sitting in the reception room. They took the girl into a room. They did not ask him where he was from. Those people did not ask a guest ‘Where are you from?’ They sat and they brought food, and they ate. The name of the girl’s father was Aprəsyaw. He said to one of his servants, he said ‘When you bring coffee and you distribute it, put your foot on the pipe of that man and break it, break his pipe’. This was because they used to smoke a pipe, there were no cigarettes. They would fill a pipe with tobacco and smoke it. Rustam smoked his pipe. He finished it and put it on the floor. They brought coffee and gave it to him. He took the coffee to drink. The man serving the coffee put his foot on the pipe and broke it. When Rustam saw that his pipe was broken, he knelt down on his knees, put his hand on that coffee server, lifted him up and slung him onto the floor. The man died. When he did this, the chief of the land, of the town, Aprəsyaw, let’s call him the ‘headman’,—his body trembled and he was very afraid. He said ‘He is a great warrior. I cannot defeat him. He will wreak havoc with us’. Nobody spoke. The man took him (Rustam) away and he lodged there. He lodged there and that night Rustam slept in their home. He was their guest. They laid for him bedding in a room and he slept. He slept for three days without getting up. They did not dare go and wake him. Bežəm was at the bottom of the village. What does he do? He goes to one side of the village and batters the houses with the poplar tree and destroys them all, at night, on the heads of the people, then he runs back. Before daybreak, he went to sleep in his tent. Word got to the king. They said ‘One side of the village is destroyed. He went down to investigate who had destroyed it. (They said) ‘Where are the armies that have attacked us?’ They said ‘Nobody has been seen, but we know that the houses have been destroyed and no armies have been seen’. On that day (he) had gone out. The next day Bežəm went to another side of the town. Also on that day he battered the houses with the poplar tree that was in his hand and destroyed them and he destroyed the district. He then ran off and slept in his tent. Word got to the king. They said ‘A side of the village, the town, has been destroyed’. He was very afraid and said ‘Who has done this?’ They did not know who it was. Finally Rustam woke up. He woke up and the king said to Rustam ‘The situation is like this. What is happening?’ What tent is that in the field? Perhaps it was from here that all this devastation is being wrought’. Rustam said ‘I don’t know what happened. I was asleep’. The king returned and sent an army to that tent. He went down to see what was in the tent. Bežəm came out. He took his stick, the stick was a poplar tree. He smote the army, he tore them apart and threw them in all directions. The king was afraid. He said this business is being done from here’. He said to Rustam ‘Who is he?’ He said ‘He is my nephew. Why are they going down to fight with him?’ He said ‘If he is your nephew, why is he camped there and does not come here? Perhaps it is he who is destroying the houses’. He said ‘It is not him. If you have warriors and you want to fight—now, I have come to ask for the hand of your daughter, whether you want to give her or whether you fight is up to you’. He said ‘No, by God. I will not give my daughter to you. I do not know where you are from’. He said ‘Do you not know me?’ He said ‘No’. He came down, they challenged one another to fight. He went down to the field and said ‘Whoever is a warrior, let him come here and test out his mettle’. The king sent his warriors to wrestle with him. All those who went down there could not defeat him and he killed them. Rustam was a mighty warrior. (Bežəm) was going back and forth. He said to his uncle, he said ‘Uncle, leave them to me, those young people, leave them to me’. Rustam said ‘No! Go and sleep in your tent. Let them be my concern’. In the end, he was forced (to concede), since Rustam finished off all the armies of the king, nobody being able to defeat him. The king was very frightened. He sent after him and made a truce with him. He made a truce with him and said ‘I want to know who you are’. He said ‘I am Rustam son of Zāl, who used to come to seek the hand of your daughter and whom you beat and whose head you broke, (leaving) wounds in his head. I have come seeking the hand of your daughter, in order to take her to my father’. Aprəsyaw was not able to say anything. He could not oppose him. He (Rustam) was a mighty warrior. He had killed half of all his armies. He said ‘We shall give her, but to you (not to your father)’. He said ‘No. I have taken an oath. I have come to take this girl either humanely or by force to my father’. In the end he was forced (to concede) and the king gave her to him. He said ‘I have given her, whether you wish to take her for yourself or whether you wish to take her for your father’. He put her on the back of the horse and the people escorted them (out of the town) and bade them farewell, then he went on his way. He travelled for one day, two, three, and reached the land of his father. He took the girl and gave her to his father. They held a wedding for seven days and seven nights, with drum and pipe. He wedded the girl to his father. I have left it there and come here.