أَنِفنا لَهُم أَن يُساموا اللِفاءَ

أَنِفنا لَهُم أَن يُساموا اللِفاءَ

بِشَجناءَ مِن رَحِمٍ توصَلُ

بِشَجناءَ مِن رَحِمٍ توصَلُ

We resented their being offered a paltry share,

We denied them to ally with the well-lined coats

because of an intertwined bond of kinship kept intact.

Through a maiden from a womb that binds

فَإِنّي اِمرُؤٌ مِن بَني عامِرٍ

فَإِنّي اِمرُؤٌ مِن بَني عامِرٍ

وَإِنَّكَ دارِيَةٌ ثَيتَلُ

وَإِنَّكَ دارِيَةٌ ثَيتَلُ

For I am a man of Banu ʿĀmir,

For I am a man from the tribe of Āmir

and you are a hunting decoy—a male mountain goat.

While you are a Dar'i woman, unsteady

تَبولُ العُنوقُ عَلى أَنفِهِ

تَبولُ العُنوقُ عَلى أَنفِهِ

كَما بالَ ذو الوَدعَةِ الأَرغَلُ

كَما بالَ ذو الوَدعَةِ الأَرغَلُ

The young she-goats urinate on his nose,

The young camel urinates on its nose

as did the long-foreskinned wearer of the cowrie shell.

As the slow-paced one with hanging lip urinates