جملة أمري أني ركبت الى

جملة أمري أني ركبت الى

دارك لما اتيتها الخطرا

دارك لما اتيتها الخطرا

The gist of my tale is that I rode to

My mother ordered me: when

your house, braving danger as I came.

I came to your house in danger

لبست دراعتي وعمتي ال

لبست دراعتي وعمتي ال

خز فصارا كما ترى حبرا

خز فصارا كما ترى حبرا

I wore my tunic and my turban of

I wore my coat of mail and my

silk; both became, as you see, patterned cloth.

helmet, so they became, as you see, armor

أصبحت في الطين عقعقاً بلقاً

أصبحت في الطين عقعقاً بلقاً

وإن تعريت خلتني نمرا

وإن تعريت خلتني نمرا

In the mud I became a piebald magpie,

I wallowed in the mud like a partridge chick

and if I stripped naked, you would think me a leopard.

And if I took it off, it left me a tiger