قلتُ إذ قيلَ جَوْهَرِيٌّ طريفٌ

قلتُ إذ قيلَ جَوْهَرِيٌّ طريفٌ

لم يكن قطُّ ذلكم جوهريا

لم يكن قطُّ ذلكم جوهريا

I said, when told, “Ṭarīf is a jeweler”:

When they said that Jayhurī was refined

That fellow was never a jeweler.

That was never my nature

إنما قيلَ جوهريٌّ لعبدٍ

إنما قيلَ جوهريٌّ لعبدٍ

نكحوهُ فلُقِّبَ الجَوْحَريا

نكحوهُ فلُقِّبَ الجَوْحَريا

It was only a slave they called “jeweler,”

Rather, ‘Jayhurī’ was said of a slave

Whom they buggered, so he was dubbed al-Jawḥarī.

Whom they married, so he was dubbed ‘al-Jayhurī’