غَضِبَ الأَحمَقُ إِذ مازَحتُهُ

غَضِبَ الأَحمَقُ إِذ مازَحتُهُ

كَيفَ لَو كُنّا ذَكَرنا المَمرَغَه

كَيفَ لَو كُنّا ذَكَرنا المَمرَغَه

The fool grew angry when I teased him.

The fool was angered when I jested with him,

What if we had mentioned al-Mamraghah,

How would it have been if we had mentioned the mop,

أَو ذَكَرنا أَنَّهُ لاعَبَها

أَو ذَكَرنا أَنَّهُ لاعَبَها

لُعبَةَ الجِدِّ بِمَزحِ الدَّغدَغَه

لُعبَةَ الجِدِّ بِمَزحِ الدَّغدَغَه

or mentioned that he had played with her,

Or mentioned that he was playing with it,

an earnest game with tickling in jest?

The game of seriousness with the jest of tickling.

سَوَّدَ اللَهُ بِخَمسٍ وَجهَهُ

سَوَّدَ اللَهُ بِخَمسٍ وَجهَهُ

دُغُنٍ أَمثالِ طينِ الرَدَغَه

دُغُنٍ أَمثالِ طينِ الرَدَغَه

May God blacken his face with five

May God blacken his face with five marks,

dark things, like the mud of a mire:

The likes of muddy clay of lizard holes,

خُنفُساوانِ وَبِنتا جُعَلٍ

خُنفُساوانِ وَبِنتا جُعَلٍ

وَالَّتي تَفتَرُّ عَنها وَزَغَه

وَالَّتي تَفتَرُّ عَنها وَزَغَه

two beetles and two daughters of a dung beetle,

With flat noses and daughters of toads,

and the one a gecko reveals when it grins.

And those from whom frogs burst out.

يَكسِرُ الشِعرَ وَإِن عاتَبتَهُ

يَكسِرُ الشِعرَ وَإِن عاتَبتَهُ

في مَجالٍ قالَ هذا في اللُغَه

في مَجالٍ قالَ هذا في اللُغَه

He breaks the meter of verse, and if you reproach him

He criticizes poetry even if you admonish him,

in a forum, he says, 'This is in the language.'

In a field he says this is linguistics.