Belê temaşevanên hêja. Yes, dear viewers.
Berê gelek cara em derbasî Çiyayê Xastiya bûn e. In the past, we have crossed into Mount Xastiya many times.
Îro dîsa bi dilikî xweş me berê xwe daye Çiyayê Xastiya. Today, again with a happy heart, we have headed towards Mount Xastiya.
Vê carê jî em ê derbasî gundê Hec Qasima bibin. This time, we will proceed to the village of Hec Qasima.
Ev gund jî girêdayî navçeya Mabatayê ye. This village is connected to the Mabata district.
Me mereq kir em vî gundî jî nas bikin. We were curious to get to know this village as well.
Lê ema payîz hatiye, piraniya milet jî derketî karê xwe. But autumn has come, and most of the people have gone out to work.
Ka em ê bi hev ra derbasî gund bibin. Let us enter the village together.
Ka em ê binêrin milet nas bikin, bi hev ra bişopînin. Let us see and get to know the people, and follow along together.
Eniya dîroka gundê Hec Qasima nas bikin. Keremkin. Let us learn the history of Hec Qasima village. Please, come along.
Merheba ji te ra birê Nûrî. Hello to you, brother Nûrî.
Merheba, ehlen we sehlen, ser çava. Hello, welcome, you are most welcome.
Sax be. Îro jî em derbasî gundê Hec Qasima bûn, gundê we bûn e. Bless you. Today we have entered the village of Hec Qasima, your village.
Em a me xwest em dîroka gundê we jî nas bikin. We wanted to learn the history of your village as well.
Gundê we çiqas sal e çêbûye? Navê gundê we ji ku hatiye? How many years ago was your village built? Where does the name of your village come from?
Ser çava, ehlen we sehlen bîn hatina we. You are welcome, welcome to your arrival.
Gundê me di esas da eşîrek Biyo ye. Our village is essentially of the Biyo tribe.
Girêdayî eşîra Biyo ye, ji Dêrsiwanê hatin e. It is connected to the Biyo tribe, they came from Dêrsiwan.
Wan derbasbûn li 'be'dîna', 'be'dîna' hinek wexta rûniştin e, ji ew şûnda derbasî Sînganê bûn e. They moved to the 'plains', stayed in the 'plains' for some time, and from there moved to Sîngan.
Li Sînganê, fekrekî baş rûniştin. They stayed in Sîngan for a good period.
Jiber ku jiber deriyê vî ardî û mirt mirtê û Sînganê, vira mentîqek e pişta vî çiyan e. Because in front of this land and the swamps and Sîngan, this place is a region behind this mountain.
Li vira jî hev çiya tabihî vî deştê bûn, girêdayî wî bûn. Here, these mountains were naturally part of this plain, connected to it.
Ji wir derbasî vira bûn, hatin e vî çiyan rûniştin e. They moved from there to here, came and settled on this mountain.
Jiber ku 'îşeta' wan di wî demî da li vira baştir bû. Because their livelihood at that time was better here.
Hinkî deribê wir giran bûn, nikarîn deribê ardî bidana. At that time the taxes there were heavy, they couldn't pay the land taxes.
Deribê jî jiber ku li ser mesaha û cografya ardî dihat. And the taxes were based on the area and geography of the land.
Hinkî deribê wir giran bûn, nikarîn bidana, 'direktûr' der tênabûn. Since the taxes there were heavy and they couldn't pay, the 'agricultural directors' didn't come out [to assess here].
Hinkî qerama mişk zêde rabûbû di wira da. At that time, a plague of mice had risen up excessively there.
Nikanîn wan ardan îstîmlak bikirana, guş bergê kêm bûn ji wir rabûn. They couldn't cultivate those lands, so their crops were meager, and they left that place.
Ji întac û zîraeta wir ava kanîbûn, tiştinî bidin, wî deribê nadin, nikanîn wî ardî naxwe dikirana yanî. From the production and agriculture there, they couldn't afford to pay those taxes, so they couldn't sustain that land.
Yanî derbasî Çiyayê Xastiya bûn? So they moved to Mount Xastiya?
Derbasî çiya bûn. Vira jî Xastiyan eqiye ye. They moved to the mountain. Here is the Xastiyan region.
Xastiyan eqiye jî mentîqekî me'rûf e. Xastiyan eqiye is also a famous region.
Di nav Kurdaxê giştî da, yumkin heta bakur û me bakur zanin. Within all of Kurd-Dagh (Afrin), and perhaps even in the North [Turkey] they know us.
Belê çayê Xastiya. Yes, the tea of Xastiya [Wait, speaker likely means "The place Xastiya"].
Wêra dibên mentîqa Çiyayê Xastiyan eqiye. They call this place the region of Mount Xastiyan eqiye.
Xastiyan eqiye di mişxwaniyê xwe da me'rûf e, di tîrê xwe da me'rûf e, di her tiştê xwe da me'rûf e. Xastiyan eqiye is famous for its apricots, famous for its figs, famous for everything it has.
Lê ema di vî derî da jî, yanî te bibê hingivê çayê Xastiyan, yanî jiber paşînda di kilamciyê me kevn da jî dibên. But in this place, if you say "the honey of Mount Xastiyan", even in our old songs they mention it.
Yanî hinkî tîna ser ziman, jiber ku pir xweş bû. Meaning it was often mentioned, because it was very good.
Di kîjan distranê da teybîr dibe? In which songs is it expressed?
Hinkî Bavê Saleh dibê. Distranê xwedê di zeytînê dibê. Bavê Saleh mentions it. He mentions olives in his songs.
Di dema pêşinda da jî hewalê jiber kim ji Were Zelal bikin. And in the past times, friends, let me clarify this for you.
Çêrê hingivê wê dibê. He speaks of the pasture of its honey.
Aaa, piştî wê derbasbûn, li vira heyat pir baş bû. Aaa, after they moved, life here was very good.
Di wî esnayê da, yanî hinkî aliyat û mehruqat tûne bûn. At that time, there were no machinery or fuels.
Milet giştî îhtîmadê ser êzinga û komirê dikir. The people generally relied on firewood and charcoal.
Heta diçûn digihandin Helebê difrotin. They even used to go and sell it in Aleppo.
Dîrek difrotin, yanî hinkî şûna vê bê tûnê bû. They sold it directly, meaning there was no poverty here at that time.
Yanî di wextekê da berî vê şêst-heftê salî, yanî hinkî yekî xaniyê bê tûn lê kir go 'reş e'. Meaning at a time, sixty or seventy years ago, if someone built a concrete house, they said it was 'black' [bad luck/ominous].
Hinkî jiber ku xanî daxî spî bûn, pak bûn. Because back then the houses were whitewashed inside, they were clean.
Germahiya wê tûne bû, ji vistanê jî sermê wê tûne bû. It wasn't too hot, and in winter it wasn't too cold.
Yanî hinkî baş bû, lê ema pero zeman tatwîr bû, wana li vira 'îşeta xwe bi va çiya dikirin. It was good then, but as time evolved, they made their livelihood here with this mountain.
Ev geliyê cem we jî ez didîm Geliyê Cercim e, bêrê tijî av bûye ev gelî yanî? This valley near you, I see it is the Cercim Valley, was this valley full of water in the past?
Erê temam. Di esas da, ev gelî, vêra dibên Wadî Cercim, yanî hinkî bi Erebî. Yes, exactly. Basically, this valley, they call it Wadi Cercim, meaning in Arabic.
Bi Kurdî em dibên Geliyê Dûlê. In Kurdish, we call it the Valley of Dûlê.
Yanî di dûl tê da dikişiya, yan her tişt tê da dibû. Meaning the 'dûl' (stream/flow) flowed through it, or everything was in it.
Hawa di esas da, bes navê wî li dinyayê me'rûf e Wadî Cercim. Basically, its name known to the world is Wadi Cercim.
Yanî gundê we çiqas sal e çêbûye? So how many years ago was your village built?
Gundê me nêzîkî hefsed û pêncî sal çêbûye. Our village was built nearly seven hundred and fifty years ago.
Ema di dehêla da deqadin. But they lived in the lower parts [at first].
Bes piştî çarsed û pêncî salî li vir temerkez bûne. But after four hundred and fifty years, they concentrated here [in this spot].
Berê çiya bi qîmet bû? Deşt ne bi qîmet bû? In the past, was the mountain valuable? Was the plain not valuable?
Piraniya miletê me tê diçî sey dikî, gundê wan hemî di çiya da avakirine. Most of our people, you go and look, they built all their villages in the mountains.
Berê di deştê da tûne bûn yanî? Were they not in the plains before?
Erê rast e. Ew dihatin, me got çi, me got ne hinkî di deştê da ne, tepeyek da. Yes, that's true. They came, as we said, not exactly in the plain, but on a hill.
Yanî hinkî di tepê da bûn, ne di çiya da bûn. Meaning they were on a hill, they weren't on the mountain.
Lê çiya daqulibî çiya ye yanî. Çiya daqulibî... But the mountain turned into a mountain... The mountain turned into...
Hewsna di pişta çi da bûn, pişî wan deşt bû. They were behind something, and behind them was the plain.
Yanî bes taqimê wana, ke bîyîn, taqimê Bîyo, eşîra Bîyo di vê astê da. Meaning just their group, who were Biyo, the Biyo tribe at this level.
Jiber ku va mentîqa giştî ne ê Biyo ye. Because this whole region does not belong to the Biyo.
Hinkî li vira, di Birîmce, malê Fîlik hebûn. Ew jî Axa bûn. At that time, here, in Birîmce, there was the Fîlik family. They were also Aghas.
Yanî di vê astê da, em bîyî bûn li vî derî. Meaning at this level, we were Biyo in this place.
Hemî gundê dor me giştî vêra alîkar dibûn, bi her tiştî. All the villages around us were generally helpful here, with everything.
Yanî hinkî penêr û her tişt ji wana ra dikirin. Meaning they made cheese and everything for them.
Lê ema hikmê xwe li vê gundî nedibî. But their rule did not apply to this village.
Jiber ku xêre, 'irqê xwe bîn e, girêdayî malê Sim'el Axa ne. Because thankfully, they knew their lineage, they are connected to the house of Sim'el Agha.
Yanî no... Dêrsiwanê bi kîjan malbatê têne nas kirin? So... With which family are they known in Dêrsiwan?
Em bi eşîrtê tê nas kirin. Em zêdetir yanî ji kurapê da ye. We are known by the tribe. We are mostly cousins.
Na, behsa gundê Dêrsiwanê dikim, yanî kîjan mirovê wan e? No, I am talking about the village of Dêrsiwan, who are their relatives?
Mirovê me yê, em dibên bîyî ne, malê Sim'el Axa ne, malê Faîq Axa ne. Our relatives, we say they are Biyo, the house of Sim'el Agha, the house of Faîq Agha.
Ew mirovê we ne? They are your relatives?
Ew mirovê me ne. They are our relatives.
Bêje ew gelek li şê jî hene, li gundê dî jî hene. Listen, there are many in the city too, and in other villages.
Erê, li heta, li mentîqê giştî hene. Li mentîqê Efrîn giştî hene. Yes, even in the whole region they exist. In the whole Afrin region they exist.
Naxwe, çiqas xaniyê gundê we heye? Malê gundê we heye? So, how many houses does your village have? How many households in your village?
Nêzîkî heştê û sê-çar mal hene. Niha, haliyen, bêyî ecercirtî wana. There are nearly eighty-three or four households. Now, currently, without counting the newcomers/displaced.
Lê ema di esas da nêzîkî çel malî bî. But originally there were nearly forty households.
Di şêmbinê vê gundî da, Hecî Qasim bi tenê xwe li vê gundî bî. At the foundation of this village, Hecî Qasim was alone in this village.
Xaniya xwe li vî derî bî, hew şiketek xwaş jî mezin li vî derî bî. His house was here, and he had a very nice large cave here.
Pez mezinê xwe dikir, ê têda xwedî dikir. He kept his large flocks, he raised them in there.
Ji Hecî Qasim da, va gunda şêm bî yanî. From Hecî Qasim, this village was populated.
Ji sê lawê wî hebûn. He had three sons.
Ew sê lawî gundê jî, pêra her yek bî 'ayîlek, di va gundî da. Those three sons of the village, each one became a family in this village.
Yanî gundê me niha ser astê sê 'ayîlatê mezin dan. Meaning our village is now based on the level of three large families.
Em vira dibên Mala 'Omê. We call this one Mala 'Omê [Family of Omar].
Em dibên Mala Extiyê. We call this one Mala Extiyê [Family of Extiyar].
Em dibên Mala Ûsê. We call this one Mala Ûsê [Family of Yusuf].
Hew hinkî Mala Xelê jî nêzîk de, girêdayî vanan e. And Mala Xelê [Family of Xelîl] is also close, connected to them.
Havna giştî tev hev din, yanî milbetek. All of these are together, meaning one large extended family.
Mala Xelê, Mala 'Omê, Mala Extiyê, Mala Ûsê, Mala Hemê. havna giştî tev hev din. Mala Xelê, Mala 'Omê, Mala Extiyê, Mala Ûsê, Mala Hemê, they are all together.
Yanî milbetek. Meaning one clan.
Mala Hesenê 'Eyrê ş hatin, ji qernî liqê ne. The family of Hesenê 'Eyrê also came, they are from the previous century.
Lê hewna malê yekemîn hatin vî gundî, hewna ok bûn. But they were the first family to come to this village, they were the 'Ok' [original/first].
Di esas da hatin Mala Hesen bûn. Basically, those who came were the House of Hesen.
Piştî wana Mala Êhûş Dêla hatin. After them, the House of Êhûş Dêla came.
Ev gundî qorşê me heye. There is this village opposite us.
Ew jî nêzîkî dused sal, sêsed sal hatin e vî gundî. They also came to this village nearly two hundred, three hundred years ago.
Di piştî wanara derbas dibê te, malê Êhûyê, dused wanara teyn. After them, it passes to the family of Êhû, two hundred came to them.
Em hinkî vira dibên mala kûrtancî, ya zehmetkar in. We sometimes call them the Packsaddle Makers family, they are hard workers.
Li vira kûrtan û derçê dikirin di wî esnayê da. Here they used to make packsaddles and saddles at that time.
Yanî em bibên wek noka mîna çû li bêjêr dibên sewac me sewac. Meaning, like how now if the bus goes to the market, they say 'sewac' [drivers/transport].
Di wî esnayê da makîne û muwaselat û der giştî dewar bî. At that time, machines and transportation and everything was beasts of burden.
Wan jî kûrtan dar li vira çê dikirin. And they used to make packsaddles from wood here.
Wan jî derbas bîn. They also passed through.
Yanî hemî însan hat li vira li cem me hewiye, ev însanê jî ji gund in. Meaning every person who came here stayed with us, and these people are also from the village.
Esasê wan bîn e ji gund, yanî ji mêj da ne, yanî hew jî ji esasî şênkirinê gund in. Their origin is from the village, meaning from long ago, they are also from the foundation of the village's settlement.
Na Nûrî, wîn debara xwe bi çi dikin? Kanî hene? Kanî li hene? So Nûrî, how do you make a living? Are there springs? Are there springs here?
Yanî em bêjin av û kanî, û debara piranîya miletê Efrîn tenê bi seraka zeytûn in e. Meaning, let's say water and springs, and the livelihood of the majority of Afrin's people is only on olives.
Başqe zeytûn çi heye? Besides olives, what is there?
Aaa, hewal di esas da em demê derbasî vî gundî nabîn. Aaa, friend, basically when we hadn't yet moved to this village.
Ji hacî qesim wana da hatin. Coming from Hacî Qasim and those.
Ne ev gund, yek hemî gundê mentîqê giştî dihatin nêzîkî kaniya rûdiniştin. Not just this village, but all villages in the whole region used to come and settle near springs.
Yanî av muhim bî. Meaning water was important.
Di wî esnayê da, bîr û der, her tişt tûne bî. At that time, wells and such, everything was non-existent.
Gerek kaniyek daîmî, sal heta sal heba, nêzîktiyê wê xwedî dikirin. There had to be a permanent spring, year-round, and they maintained proximity to it.
O vî qorşî me jêrin, nêzîkî sêsed mître tûne ye. And down this slope from us, it's not even three hundred meters away.
Kaniya me jî heye. Yanî me avê xwe ji kaniya derê, jiber ku şand me tîna. We also have our spring. Meaning we got our water from the spring outside, because we brought it up.
O di esas da, vî gundê giştî derdorî wan kanî yan, mîsa Dela jî kaniya Dela heye, Rûta jî kaniya Rûta heye. And basically, all these villages around here are springs, for example Dela has the Dela spring, Rûta has the Rûta spring.
Girêdayî hev bûn e, giy nêzîkî kaniyan e, ew dikin. They were connected to each other, all near springs, they do that.
Avê xwe ji kaniyan digirtin. They took their water from the springs.
Lê ema zêdetir debara me li vî derî giştî, me got di demokê da be çi bî. But mostly our livelihood here in general, as we said, whatever it was in the past.
Me got ça zêde, zêde bi qîmet bîn. We said figs, they were very valuable.
Ça dîrek jê difrotin, komir dikirin. They sold figs directly, they made charcoal.
Her tiştê ki xwe jê dikirin. They made everything of theirs from it.
Piştî wê, zeytûn jî istimlak kirin. After that, they cultivated olives too.
Malê xopê di mentîqa me giştî, niha bûye zeytûn. Our property in our whole region has now become olives.
O debara xwe vê tiştî dikirin. And they made their livelihood from this thing.
Axê Cemê jî, yanî ke cografî, axê Cemê, tebî'etê axê me gewre. And the soil of Cemê (river bank), meaning geographically, the soil of Cemê, the nature of our soil is great/grey.
Gewrbîniya wê jî ne wekî deştê germ e. Its greyness/greatness is not hot like the plain.
Ne maddiya asin zêde tî tûne ye. It doesn't have excessive iron content.
Rutûbê wê pir e. Dema ta tişt têda diçan, ji xwe berê wekî tiştî avî dibî yanî. Its moisture is high. When you plant something in it, by itself it becomes like irrigated crops.
Hew benedûr diçandin, xûdra diçandin, her tiştik diçandin, di vira da dibû. They planted tomatoes, they planted vegetables, they planted everything, it would grow here.
Ne wekî avî, tama wî xweş bî. Not like irrigated ones, its taste was good.
Wekî baqî, xiyar û xûdra wî, tama wî xweş bî. Like the rest, its cucumbers and vegetables, its taste was good.
Serkeftî bî, wî di firotinê da jî serkeftî bî. It was successful, it was successful in sales too.
O milet giştî debara xwe bi va tiştan dikirin. And the people generally made their living with these things.
O yanî îsal jî şikir ji xwedê ra zeytûn me baş in, ne xirab in. And so this year too, thanks be to God, our olives are good, they are not bad.
O zeytûn jî di encamê da darek mûbarek e, darek nûr e, darek serkeftî ye, darek bi xêr e. And olives are ultimately a blessed tree, a tree of light, a successful tree, a beneficial tree.
Xwedî kerem e, xwedî nêmet e, bereket têda heye, her tişt têda heye. It has grace, it has bounty, there is blessing in it, there is everything in it.
Em bi hêviya salek xweş û geş û bi bereket ji miletê xwa ra, ji gundê xwa ra dixwazin. We wish a happy, bright, and blessed year for our people, for our village.
Gundê Hecî Qasima girêdayî navçeya Mabeta ya Kantona Efrînê, 12 kîlometreyan li rojavayê bajarokê Mabeta, û 30 kîlometreyan li bakurê rojavayê bajarê Efrînê dikeve. The village of Hecî Qasima is connected to the Mabeta district of the Afrin Canton, located 12 kilometers west of the town of Mabeta, and 30 kilometers northwest of the city of Afrin.
Navê gundê Hecî Qasima ji navê damezirînerê gund Hecîyê Qasim hatiye. Wekî tê zanîn ku Hecîyê Qasim di serî de li gundê Sîdankê yan navçeya Cindirêsê niştecî bibû. The name of the village Hecî Qasima comes from the name of the village's founder, Hecî son of Qasim. As it is known, Hecî son of Qasim had initially settled in the village of Sîdankê or the district of Jindires.
Piştre veguhêzî ciyê xastiyan. Ji ber çêkirina komirê, qutkirina darikan, ku herêma xastiyan bi daristanên merxê û sindan kî navdar bû. Later, he moved to the Xastiyan place. Because of charcoal production and cutting wood, as the Xastiyan region was famous for its forests of juniper and oak trees.
Her wiha gundê Hecî Qasima hate avakirin. Gundê Hecî Qasima ji mozayîkê ava bûye. Thus, the village of Hecî Qasima was established. The village of Hecî Qasima is made up of a mosaic.
Li wira 12 malbat li gund dijîn. Hêjayî bibîrxistinê ye ku malbata Hecî Qasim bi navê Soro li bajarokê Şiyê jî niştecî bûye. There are 12 families living in the village there. It is worth mentioning that the family of Hecî Qasim, known by the name Soro, has also settled in the town of Shiye.
Kolanek bi navê kolana Hecî Qasima li gundê Baedîna jî heye. Gundê Hecî Qasima kevintirîn gundê herêmê derdora ye. There is also a street named Hecî Qasima Street in the village of Baedina. Hecî Qasima village is the oldest village in the surrounding area.
Li aliyê rojava de kok a çiyada, li cihekî bilind ava bûye. Ango berê xwe dide rojê. On the western side, at the foot of the mountain, it was built on a high place. Meaning it faces the sun.
Em destpêkê noşîcan, bi xêr hatin. First of all, cheers (bon appetit), welcome.
Ahlan wa sahlan, ser çava. Hûn bi xêr hatin. Welcome, upon our eyes. You are welcome.
Navê min Muhyedîn e, xelkê gundê Hecî Qasima me. My name is Muhyedin, I am from the village of Hecî Qasima.
Navê min Fîdan e. My name is Fidan.
Ser çava. You are welcome.
Ahlan wa sahlan, Şêxo, bila tera. Navê min Mihemed e. Welcome, Sheikho, good to see you. My name is Mihemed.
Ser çava. You are welcome.
Merheba, navê min Horî ye, ji Hecî Qasima me. Hello, my name is Hori, I am from Hecî Qasima.
Ser çava. Hûn her çar ji Hecî Qasima ne? You are welcome. Are all four of you from Hecî Qasima?
Em di dema derbasbûna gund de bûn, me meraq kir bi rastî jî. Behsa zimanê çivîka dikirin, çûka dikirin. While we were passing through the village, we really wondered. They were talking about the bird language, the language of the birds.
Digotin ev gunda giştî bi ev ra diaxivin. Ev çî ye hûn dixwazin bi vî zimanî biaxivin bi hev ra? They said this whole village speaks with each other in this way. What is this, that you want to speak in this language with each other?
Em ji mêj da, ji bav û kalên me da, daxwaza vî zimanî... Hewo ji ber ku gava meriv biçûya civatekê, şûrek meriv hebûya, sirrekî ba, te û hevalê xwe vî zimanî dang kira, kesî jê fêm nedikir. Since long ago, from our forefathers, the desire for this language... It was so that when one went to a gathering, if one had a secret word, a secret, you and your friend would speak this language, and no one would understand it.
Vî zimanî nizanîn par. Û vî zimanî jî li vî sê gundê me, diyar e ji mêj da ji bav û kalên me da heye. They didn't know this language back then. And this language, in these three villages of ours, it is clear that it has existed since long ago, from our forefathers.
Yanî gundê din nizanin? So other villages don't know it?
Gundê din nizanin. Wekî Rûta, ew jî vî zimanî dang dikin. Other villages don't know it. Like [the village of] Rûta, they also speak this language.
Yanî vî zimanî ji mêj da li ba gundiyên me pê dang dikin. Meaning, our villagers have been speaking this language for a long time.
Û civat, am jî nizanin, gundê din, xerîb bin nizanin. Gundiyên Hecî Qasima ji mêj da pê dang dikin, hîn dibin, ji bav û kalên me dang dikin yanî vî zimanî. And the community, general people don't know it, other villages, strangers don't know it. The villagers of Hecî Qasima have been speaking it for a long time, learning it, speaking it from our forefathers, this language.
Dayê tu? Mother, you?
Ez ji hîn a qîzik bim, ez zanim heta noka. I have known it since I was a young girl until now.
Heta noka? Until now?
Heta noka, ez bi zarokên xwe ra, bi bûkên xwe ra, bi cîranên xwe ra, kî zanim pê ra dipeyivim. Kî nizanim bi Kurmancî û Erebî jî zanim. Bi 'asfûrkî yanî. Until now, with my children, with my daughters-in-law, with my neighbors, whoever knows it, I speak with them. Whoever doesn't know, I also know Kurmanji and Arabic. In "bird language" (Asfurki), that is.
Dema hûn bi hev ra diaxivin, mêvanek were hûn bi hev ra diaxivin? When you speak with each other, if a guest comes, do you speak with each other [in this language]?
Lê ji xwere, tiştekî me wilo veşartîbe em pêra diaxivin. Yes, privately, if we have something hidden [secret], we speak with it.
Walla em dixwazin, em tiştê bav û kalên xwe jibîr nekin. Û tiştê... turasî, çi dibe bila bibe, em dixwazin em tîm ji qîçikên xwe ra dang kin. Bavkê me hînî me dikirin, dêka me hînî me dikirin, dang kirina me hev be. Well, we want to not forget the things of our forefathers. And things of... heritage, whatever happens, we want to always speak it to our children. Our fathers taught us, our mothers taught us, so that our speech would be the same.
Em dixwazin em qîçikên xwe jî hînî bikin. Sibe du dibe êrîşin werin ser me, em bi zimanê xwe bi hev ra dang kin, em hevdu xelas kin jî yanî. Yanî gotina dijmin li ser me, ji me fêm neke me hevdu ra gotin çi. We want to teach our children too. Tomorrow or the next day, if attacks come upon us, we can speak our language to each other, and we can save each other. So that the enemy over us won't understand what we said to each other.
Neha tiştekî ji te bipirsim. Dema mêvanek we tê, û teke... peyê malê rabe. Hevjîna te xwest bêje tiştekî li mal namîne, tu bi zimanê çivîka wê çawa jê re dang bikî? Now let me ask you something. When a guest of yours comes, and just... the man of the house gets up. If your wife wanted to say there is nothing left in the house, how would you say it to her in the bird language?
Em bê... "Leza weze, meze heze, seze... feza reze zû ze, jeze zû ze, weze reze ze..." Mezin mezin bizanim, ez nizanim, hinekî piçûk zanim. We would say... "Le-za we-ze, me-ze he-ze..." [Speaking Bird Language]. I know the big [words/concepts], I don't know, I know a little bit.
Te got çi? What did you say?
Min go mêvanê me hatine, em kê qîmetê zanibin. Bila wiha xwarina efrînî, ferşqêyn werin. I said our guests have come, we should know their value. Let them bring Afrini food, "ferşqêyn" [a specific dish or bread].
Te got mirîşkê bînin ji Efrînê? You said bring chickens from Afrin?
Na mirîşkê bînin, em kê serjêkin. Em kê mêvanê xwe, me'ne rêzê me pê sipî vebin. Em li gundane, ştê me hene, cîranên me hene, emê gazî kin. Emê goştê mirîşkê, qehwe dênê, çayê dênê. No, bring chickens, we will slaughter them. We will... for our guests, meaning our face will be white [honorable] with it. We are in the village, we have things, we have neighbors, we will call them. We will give chicken meat, give coffee, give tea.
Em gûza dişkênin, hejîra dixwin... tiştê... hespê darê... zerûfê me re xweş be. Çi hebe em wa dikin. We crack walnuts, eat figs... things... of the trees... if our situation is good. Whatever there is, we do that.
Lê ka tu, kê vî bi hev ra biaxivin, ha? But what about you [two], who will speak this together, huh?
Lê mirîşk hene, derdikin, kurka diheînin, derdikin, tişta... Yes, there are chickens, they go out, hatch brood, they go out, things... [commenting on the previous topic about chickens].
Ka hûn herdu bi hev ra biaxivin? Ka neha tiştekî biaxivin, bila temaşevan jî bibînin. How about you two speak together? Speak something now, so the viewers can see.
[Speaking Bird Language] "Eze teze dezem..." [Speaking Bird Language] "E-ze te-ze de-zem..."
[Speaking Bird Language] "Ozo lozo yeze meze heze meze deze..." [Speaking Bird Language] "O-zo lo-zo ye-ze me-ze he-ze me-ze de-ze..."
[Speaking Bird Language] "Keze feze xozo şeze zezo... Ozo xozo zezo weze lezo tezo reze..." [Speaking Bird Language] "Ke-ze fe-ze xo-zo şe-ze ze-zo... O-zo xo-zo ze-zo we-ze le-zo te-zo re-ze..."
[Speaking Bird Language] "Seze teze eze zeze xozo şeze... jeze zezo ozo xozo weze lezo tezo reze zo ro zo..." [Speaking Bird Language] "Se-ze te-ze e-ze ze-ze xo-zo şe- ze... je-ze ze-zo o-zo xo-zo we-ze le-zo te-zo re-ze zo ro zo..."
[Speaking Bird Language] "Eze zeze yeze... gozo zini dizi xozo..." [Speaking Bird Language] "E-ze ze-ze ye-ze... go-zo zi-ni di-zi xo-zo..."
We go çi? Naha ya şta xwa got? What did you say? Now, did you say your thing?
Min fêhm nekir te we got çi? I didn't understand what you said.
Min got: "Ehlen we sehlan, em pêr bi kefxweş in, bi hatina axa welat, bernameya axa welat." Wî jî got "ehlen we sehlan", em jî pê kêfxweş in, û em silav dikin dişînin jaxa welat re. I said: "Welcome, we are very happy with the coming of Axa Welat [Land's Soil], the program Axa Welat." He also said "welcome", we are also happy with it, and we send greetings to Axa Welat.
Spas ji were jî. Spas, spas, spas. Thank you to you too. Thanks, thanks, thanks.
Ka dayê hûn jî bi hev ra biaxivin. Ka, deqayek, te çi jê re bigota? Mother, you two speak together too. Here, one minute, what would you say to her?
[Speaking Bird Language] "Heze reze zizi tizi cizi yizi eze, qeze zizi şkeze teze zeze, şeze zeze leze zeze, reze zeze heze zeze teze zeze neze zeze..." [Speaking Bird Language] "He-ze re-ze zi-zi ti-zi ci-zi yi- zi e-ze, qe-ze zi-zi şke-ze te-ze ze-ze..."
[Speaking Bird Language] "... eze zeze waze zeze guze zize..." [Speaking Bird Language] "... e-ze ze-ze wa-ze ze-ze gu-ze zi-ze..."
[Speaking Bird Language] "Teze zeze reze zoze quze zeze deze zeze oze zeze beze zeze leze zeze..." [Speaking Bird Language] "Te-ze ze-ze re-ze zo-ze qu-ze ze- ze de-ze ze-ze o-ze ze-ze be-ze ze-ze le-ze ze-ze..."
[Speaking Bird Language] "Xoze zeze teze zeze roze zeze..." [Speaking Bird Language] "Xo-ze ze-ze te-ze ze-ze ro-ze ze- ze..."
[Speaking Bird Language] "Moze loze zeze xoze zeze deze zeze oze zeze boze zeze..." [Speaking Bird Language] "Mo-ze lo-ze ze-ze xo-ze ze-ze de- ze ze-ze o-ze ze-ze bo-ze ze-ze..."
[Speaking Bird Language] "Şeze zeze leze zeze..." [Speaking Bird Language] "Şe-ze ze-ze le-ze ze-ze..."
Min go "qîçikê te çûne, şolê rehet ne, şolê bi kêf ne". Wê jî got "qîçikê min destî te maç dikin, min go Xwedê ji te razî be, bila ew bav mezin bibin." I said "your children have gone, they are comfortable at work, happy at work". She said "my children kiss your hand, I said may God be pleased with you, may they grow up with a father."
Hezer... waze... guzu... tu... wisa we bi hevra tiştek got? He-zer... wa-ze... gu-zu... you... did you say something like that to each other?
Lê ka hûn çawa diaxivin? Yanî tîpa hûn di zêde dikin? Kîjan tîpa berî kîjanê dikin? But how do you speak? Meaning, which letter do you add? Which letter do you put before which?
Tîpa... mabeyna tîpê û tîpê, herfa "Z" dikeviyê. The letter... between a letter and a letter, the letter "Z" enters.
Eger çi qoyekî nizane be... ew çi çiqiyo, zê xwa hebe, kanê mabeyna herfê û herfê, tîpê û tîpê, herfa "Z" têke, bi xwa ew zimanê derdikeve. If anyone doesn't know... whatever twig [dialect/language] it is, if they have the 'z', if they put the letter 'Z' between the letter and letter, letter and letter, that language emerges by itself.
Paşê, mesela... tu ji herfa "Z" pir nas dibe. Tu kanê mesela mabeyna tîpê û tîpê herfa "T" têke. Tît nire tît nê, hît te rît nê, kît te rît nê... yanî herfa "T" dikeviyê. Then, for example... you become very familiar with the letter "Z". You can, for example, put the letter "T" between the letters. [Demonstrates with T sounds]... meaning the letter "T" enters.
Têkê mesela "F" têke. Têkê çi têke, tu kanê lûxatekî li cem xwa da bişekilîne vê lûxatî. You put, for example, put "F". Put whatever you put, you can form a language/dialect with yourself with this language.
Mabeyna tîpê û tîpê, herfekê... têke herfekê, tim têke. Between letter and letter, a letter... put a letter, always put it.
Yanî herfa "V" tîpê "Z" ye. Têke mabeyna tîpê û tîpê "Z" têke. Têke bi "T" deng ke. Tê kanê mabeyna tîpê û tîpê herfa tîpê "T" têke. Têke bi "F" deng ke. Tê kanê mabeyna tîpê û tîpê herfa "F" têke. Meaning the letter "V" is the letter "Z". Put "Z" between the letter and letter. Put it and sound it with "T". You can put the letter "T" between the letter and letter. Put it and sound it with "F". You can put the letter "F" between the letter and letter.
Wa... bixwa lûxat derdikeve. Yanî çiqas... çiqas... herf hene, wa qas lûxat karî jê peyda bikî. Like that... the language comes out by itself. Meaning however much... however many... letters there are, that many languages you can find from it.
Yanî tîpa hûn zêde dikin, ew tîpa "Z", ya "T", ya "Z", ya "S"... Meaning the letters you add, that letter "Z", or "T", or "Z", or "S"...
Tîp dikeve ortê... yekê tim di ortê giya dikeviye. The letter goes into the middle... one always goes into the middle of all of them.
E zehmet e yanî ev jî? Is this also difficult?
E te, ger te mumarese nekiribe, tu nikane zû hewa bike. Eh, you, if you haven't practiced, you can't do it quickly like that.
Na gundî we hemî diaxivin? Do all your villagers speak it?
Pir yanî, ekser... nîvro, vanê di berê esasî gund da, noka me gotî mesela em bêjin... jinek ji gundekî din xwestin û nîn e hewa, nikane deng ke. Bes e esasî... Many, meaning, the majority... half, those who are originally from the village. Now as we said, for example let's say... a woman was brought (married) from another village and isn't like that, she can't speak it. But the original...
Fêr nebûye? Ne elimî ye? She hasn't learned? Isn't accustomed?
Ne elimî ye. Ê esasî gund kanê deng ke. Isn't accustomed. The original villager can speak it.
Ka navê kaniya xwe bêje. Navê kaniya xwe. Say the name of your wife. The name of your wife.
Kaza neze ze meze yeze, veze deze reze ze. [Bird Language for "Kanîya me/min Fîdan e"] Ka-za ne-ze ze me-ze ye-ze, ve-ze de-ze re-ze ze.
Heze neze zik, eze zeze haza zeç qozo ze s mazo ze yeze. [Bird Language] He-ze ne-ze zik, e-ze ze-ze ha-za zeç qo-zo ze s ma-zo ze ye-ze.
Heze neze zik, mize ze s teze 'aza zî şuze zî ruze zo yeze. [Bird Language] He-ze ne-ze zik, mi-ze ze s te-ze 'a-za zi şu-ze zi ru-ze zo ye-ze.
Emze zay yeze haza zer guze zen dezen, jize ze va za dize ze xizên. [Bird Language] Em-ze zay ye-ze ha-za zer gu-ze zen de-zen, ji-ze ze va za di-ze ze xi-zên.
Ka te çi got? Na rastî ka ji me ra bêje. What did you say? Now tell us truthfully.
Min got kaniya Hecî Qasima, kaniya Mist Eşûra, em jê hez dikin, ava wê şêrîn e. I said the spring of Hecî Qasima, the spring of Mist Eşûra, we love it, its water is sweet.
Min vira got, ehlen we sehlan, em îro pir bi kêfxweş in, bi hatina Axa Welat, bernameya Axa Welat. You said all that?
Min vira got, ehlen we sehlan, em îro pir bi kêfxweş in, bi hatina Axa Welat, bernameya Axa Welat. I said here, welcome, we are very happy today, with the coming of Axa Welat, the program Axa Welat.
Wî jî got "ehlen we sehlan", em jî pê kêfxweş in, û em silav dikin dişînin jaxa welat re. He also said "welcome", we are also happy with it, and we send greetings to Axa Welat.
Spas ji were jî. Spas, spas, spas. Thank you to you too. Thanks, thanks, thanks.
Ka dayê hûn jî bi hev ra biaxivin. Ka, deqayek, te çi jê re bigota? Mother, you two speak together too. Here, one minute, what would you say to her?
[Bird Language] Huzu rizi tizi cizi yizi eze, qizi zik, kizi teze şeza leze reze haza teze neze... [Bird Language] Hu-zu ri-zi ti-zi ci-zi yi-zi e-ze, qi-zi zik, ki-zi te-ze şe-za le-ze re-ze ha-za te-ze ne-ze...
[Bird Language] ... şaze leze beze keze feze neze, uze weze jize guze qeze çkeze min deze sti teze maş diki ni... [Bird Language] ... şa-ze le-ze be-ze ke-ze fe-ze ne-ze, u-ze we-ze ji-ze gu-ze qe-ze çke-ze min de-ze sti te-ze maş di-ki ni...
[Bird Language] ...muze guze xuze deş teze raze beze leze, beze deze uze baze meze zin beze ben. [Bird Language] ...mu-ze gu-ze xu-ze deş te-ze ra-ze be-ze le-ze, be-ze de-ze u-ze ba-ze me-ze zin be-ze ben.
E ze ze wa ze gu ze t... wa... wisa we bi hevra tiştek got? E ze ze wa ze gu ze t... like... like that did you say something to each other?
Ê ka wîn çawa diaxivin? Yanî tîpa hûn di zêde dikin? Kîjan tîpa berî kîjanê dikin? So how do you speak? Meaning which letter do you add? Which letter do you put before which?
Tîpa... mabeyna tîpê û tîpê, herfa "Z" dikeviyê. The letter... between a letter and a letter, the letter "Z" enters.
Eger çi qoyekî nizane be... ew çi çiqiyo, zê xwa hebe, kanê mabeyna herfê û herfê, tîpê û tîpê, herfa "Z" têke, bi xwa ew zimanê derdikeve. If anyone doesn't know... whatever twig [dialect/language] it is, if they have the 'z', if they put the letter 'Z' between the letter and letter, letter and letter, that language emerges by itself.
Paşê, mesela... tu ji herfa "Z" pir nas dibe. Tu kanê mesela mabeyna tîpê û tîpê herfa "T" têke. Tît nire tît nê, hît te rît nê, kît te rît nê... yanî herfa "T" dikeviyê. Then, for example... you become very familiar with the letter "Z". You can, for example, put the letter "T" between the letters. [Demonstrates with T sounds]... meaning the letter "T" enters.
Têkê mesela "F" têke. Têkê çi têke, tu kanê lûxatekî li cem xwa da bişekilîne vê lûxatî. You put, for example, put "F". Put whatever you put, you can form a language/dialect with yourself with this language.
Mabeyna tîpê û tîpê, herfekê... têke herfekê, tim têke. Between letter and letter, a letter... put a letter, always put it.
Li rohilatê gund, kaniya Hecî Qasima û gundê Mist Eşûra. Li başûr, geliyê Dûlê ango Circim, û gundê Kaxrê û Rûta. To the east of the village is the Hecî Qasima spring and the village of Mist Eşûra. To the south, the Dûlê valley, also known as Circim, and the villages of Kaxrê and Rûta.
Li rojhilat, geliyê Kûmrê, serê Qûça û gundê Dela. Li bakur, serê Gazê û Baniya Ozê dikevin. To the east, the Kûmrê valley, the Serê Qûça [peak], and the village of Dela. To the north, Serê Gazê and Baniya Ozê are located.
Gundê Hecî Qasima çiyayî û çiyayên derdora bi daristanên merxê xemilandî ne. The village of Hecî Qasima is mountainous, and the surrounding mountains are adorned with juniper forests.
Ji wan çiyayê Çizirkê li başûr, çiyayê Omê, Extiyar, Heydo, Benê Hêra û çiyayê Çatê ne. Among them are Mount Çizirkê to the south, Mount Omê, Extiyar, Heydo, Benê Hêra and Mount Çatê.
Hemû daristanên hawîrdorê bi bayê xweş û dîmenê rengîn, bi bêhna kulîlk û rihanên newir û şêrîn, herêm kirine cihê geşt û seyranê. All the surrounding forests, with their pleasant breeze and colorful scenery, with the scent of flowers and sweet, rare basil, have made the region a place for excursions and picnics.
Geliyê Dûlê ango Circim li binê gund e. Weke deştekê, zeviyên fêkî û baxçeyên sebzeyan xemilandî ye. The Dûlê valley, also known as Circim, is below the village. Like a plain, it is adorned with fruit fields and vegetable gardens.
Xelk ji deverên dûr, di rojên betlaneyan da serdana wir dikin, û bi kêf û xweşî dema xwe diqedînin. People from distant areas visit there on holidays, and spend their time with joy and pleasure.
Apê Hesen merheba ji te re. Uncle Hassan, hello to you.
Ehlen we sehlen. Welcome.
Tu rihet î? Are you comfortable?
Tu rihetî, cîp tê de ye. You are comfortable, there is a pocket in it [joking/idiom about being okay].
Apê Hesen, tu gundiyan bahsa te dikirin, çîroka te dikirin. Uncle Hassan, the villagers were talking about you, telling your story.
Gotin kesekî di gundê me de heye, lê ema bi temenê xwe emrê wî mezin e. They said there is someone in our village, but his age is quite advanced.
Lê berê hemî kar dikir, û dîsa paşê çavê xwe nedidît yanî? But in the past, he did all kinds of work, even though later he couldn't see with his eyes?
Te çend sal e tu nabînî? How many years have you not been able to see?
Ez berya wê da nabînim. I haven't seen since before that [a long time ago].
Yanî dema tu zarok bûyî yanî? Meaning when you were a child?
Hm. Hm.
E te berê çi kar dikir? So what work did you do in the past?
Lawo, kumer dikirin. Son, we used to make harvest piles.
Paleyî diçinî... Şerabê dikişandine... Kumer jî dikir. Harvesting crops... Hauling grapes/syrup... Making harvest piles too.
Vêga... Now...
Di nav gundiyan jî digeriyayî? Te çi kar dikir li gund da? Did you walk among the villagers too? What did you do in the village?
Gund da... In the village...
Destarê Firingî me digerand. We used to run the Frankish Mill [Village name: Gundê Destarê Firingî].
Tu diçû kîjan gundana? Which villages did you go to?
Ez diçûm gundê Hechesna... I went to the village of Hechesna...
Te bi tenê diçûyî, gundan bi vê çavên xwe? Did you go alone, to the villages, with these eyes of yours?
Ez diçûm Remedana jî... ez diçûm Hechesna jî... ez diçûm Remedana jî... I went to Remedana too... I went to Hechesna too... I went to Remedana too...
Ez diçûm Dêla jî, ez diçûm Dirmîşê jî, ez diçûm Şikêterê jî... I went to Della too, I went to Dirmish too, I went to Sheketer too...
Ez diçûm Raxweziyanê jî. I went to Raxweziyan too.
E te çû, pêşiya xwe nedidît, tu dikişiya yanî? So you went, you couldn't see in front of you, did you stumble?
Min çaxa didî, nehoka noka... I used to see back then, not like now...
Yanî te didît? Rind te didît li te? So you could see? You saw well?
Hinek. A little.
Na piştre çavê te kor bûn yanî? No, did your eyes become blind afterwards?
Hm. Hm.
E te dîsa diçûyî kar yanî te...? And you still went to work, did you...?
Erê. Yes.
Lawo kumer dikir... Son, used to make harvest piles...
Kumer me ar dikir... We set the piles [threshing process]...
Ez li ber kî xew diketim. I would fall asleep next to it.
Wi xew dikir, ez têm li kumerê dinêrim. He slept, I come and look at the pile.
Qol dibî min ra dikir. It was a servant/laborer, he helped me.
Roke qolê bî min ra kir, min got ay... One day the servant helped me, I said ay...
Go kumer qul bûye... He said the pile has a hole/leak...
Go heftarî hat, derê çavê xwe veke de bireşînim. He said the weekly [wind/storm] came, open your eyes so I can sprinkle [winnow].
Go ne kumer qul bûye. He said the pile didn't have a hole.
Em rabûn li ber xew ke. We got up to sleep next to it.
Min rabû belkim kumer qul bûye. I got up thinking maybe the pile had a hole.
Tu çend salî ye? How old are you?
Nikanim. I can't [say/know].
Hê? Huh?
Yê ez mam heştê salî me. Oh, I remain eighty years old.
Heştê salî? Eighty years old?
Heştê salî belkim. You don't know?
Heştê salî belkim. Eighty years old, maybe.
Na te got ez diçûm gunda, Destarê Firingî... No, you said I went to the villages, Destarê Firingî...
E wa çi dikir? Evê destarê çi destar e? Hine cem te heye, ew destara? So what was that doing? What kind of mill is this mill? Do you have some with you, that mill?
Na. No.
Ka em vî kîşî ra pirsin. Let us ask this person.
Mihemed, te behsa kir, te got bavê te, yanî hemûyê behsa bavê te dikin. Mohammed, you mentioned, you said your father, meaning everyone talks about your father.
Dibêjin yanî, min got tiştekî balkêş e yanî. They say, I mean, I said it is an interesting thing.
Te dît dema însanekî pêşiya xwe nebîne, biçe kar jî bike. You know, when a human cannot see in front of them, but still goes and works.
Yanî hinekî zehmetî tê de, jiyana wî de çêdibe yanî. Meaning there is some difficulty in it, it happens in his life.
E çi tiştin balkêş bavê te ra derbas bûn yanî? So what interesting things passed through your father's life?
Bavê min, sifte ew çaxa zarok, çavê xwe didîn bes hindik... hindik didîn. My father, firstly when he was a child, his eyes saw but very little... saw very little.
Her mezî bû, her kar kir, her xebat kir. As he grew up, he kept working, kept laboring.
Zeîf bû, bes piştyî zeîf bû şûnda, dîsa kar dikir. He was weak [visually], but even after becoming weak, he still worked.
Dîsa diçû cûd, şixre dikişand, kokedarê dikola, kumer dikir. He still went to the threshing floor, hauled loads, dug tree stumps, made harvest piles.
Sê sed û pêncî sal e Destarê Firingî li cem bû. The Frankish Mill [village] has been there for 350 years.
Li mentîqa giyê digerî... gunda giya digerî. He traveled the whole region... he traveled all the villages.
E çawa nedidît, diçû yanî? So how did he go if he couldn't see?
E ne di... bixwe em zarok bûn. Well not... we ourselves were children.
E şebabê xwe jî tune bûn. And his youth was gone too.
Şabê xwe tune bûn, em jî giyê qîz bûn, e debara jiyana xwe pê dikir. His youth was gone, and we were all girls [or small/weak], so he made his living with it.
Ez behsa zehmetiyê dikim yanî. I am talking about the difficulty.
Te dît, belki em niha qasekî, qasekî bigerin, biçin yek kar nake yanî. You see, maybe if we now walk a short distance, a short distance, one wouldn't do the work.
Na te dît gelek însan hene, nabînin. No, you see there are many people who cannot see.
Bes dema kar dikin, diçûn... But when they work, they went...
Te dît ew dibêjim cewanê, gundê kakirê, ew mîradê kor hebû... You see, I say, like the youth, the village of Kakire, there was that blind Mirad...
Na... Te dît na yek li Hec Xelîl heye. No... You see no, there is one in Hec Xelil.
E rojekî bibî mêvanê wan, ama min silav da wan, wî ez nas kirim yanî, ama bes bi denga yanî. One day I was their guest, I greeted them, he recognized me, but only by voice.
Bavê min jî wisa bû. My father was like that too.
Bavê min neha, yekî vir deng kira, piştî pêncî salî dîsa deng nas dikirn. My father now, if someone spoke here, after fifty years he would still recognize the voice.
Nas dikirn. He recognized them.
Û biçûya bi gunda, ez dibêjim bi dewer diçû, nav gund çû de sal kir, bi çû de diçû dihat. And he would go to the villages, I say he went around, spent years in the village, went back and forth.
Û dîrokê gund, dîrokê mentîqê giyê zanî. And he knew the history of the village, the history of the whole region.
Bes neha pîr sal ket, nexweş e, nav ciyada ye... But now old age has fallen [on him], he is sick, he is in bed...
E nekanî deng ke, nexweş e. Emrê xwe heştê û pênc derbas kirine. He can't speak much, he is sick. He has passed eighty-five years of age.
Berê giyê dikir, giyê zanî. Before, he did everything, he knew everything.
Neha gundê me... Now our village...
Dîrokê gundê me ji giya rintir zanê. He knows the history of our village better than anyone.
Bes ne neha nexweş e nikane deng ke. But right now he is sick and cannot speak.
Yanî ez dixwazim mîsalekî ji te ra ha bidim... Meaning I want to give you an example...
Merîkî me hebû, neş eskerî ser wîyê gênc bû... We had a relative/man, he wasn't in the military, he was young...
Yekî pismamê wî... erdê yine warê, go ez nêwîrim herim. Bavê min got lawo, lawo xalî bavê min e, go tu çima tû nêwîrî? One of his cousins... regarding the land, he said "I don't dare to go." My father said, "Son, son," he is my father's maternal uncle, he said "Why don't you dare?"
Go ez, jê ra çû, honî hat, birazê yekî tirmîşê meriyê me ye. Xwarzê me ye, xalê me ye. He said "I..." he went to him, over there came... the nephew of one of the Tirmish people is our relative. Our nephew, our uncle.
Hat, pêşiyê bi şev, ew bi şev derê, ne bi roj. He came, came at night, he goes out at night, not by day.
Berê temwîn hebû, temwînê da digirt, bi şev diçû we derê... Before there was rationing/supplies, he would get the supplies, go out at night...
Çolê rastê hat, iserî kerî gênde, bexçe dikişîne. Kêr kişand çû, yekî bi kêrê lê xist. In the wild he came across him, driving a herd, pulling the garden [produce?]. He pulled a knife and went, someone struck with a knife.
Da go lo xalê Hesen, te wa çi dikî, kî yê min bikujî, kî yê min bixwe? He hit, said "Hey Uncle Hassan, what are you doing? Who is going to kill me, who is going to eat me?"
Bavê min go, ez çi zanim tu kî yî? Tu bi şev hatiye? My father said, "How do I know who you are? You came at night?"
Go welle ez filankes im, kurê filankes im. He said, "I swear I am so-and-so, son of so-and-so."
Go te... go te bas hew nekin, te bikujita. He said "You... if you hadn't spoken, I would have killed you."
Vê şevê û li vê çolê, te hatiye dikî... In this night and in this wilderness, you have come doing...
Te bahkûme te çi ye? Who are you? [Lit: What is your excuse/reason?]
Erê, xwest henekê vêra bike. Yes, he wanted to joke with him.
Erê xwest henekê vêra bike, de ew jî ne, nabîne, da go binê kî hatiye pêşiyê. Yes, he wanted to joke with him, so he also, he doesn't see, said "Let's see who has come in front."
Û kêr û ege bi kêrê lê xista. And the knife and... he would have struck him with the knife.
Tiştê çi balkêş vêra derbas bûn, di jiyana wî da? What interesting things happened to him, in his life?
Yanî ma te xwest ew bixwe bêje... I mean, I wanted him to say it himself...
So ke, ew tiştin ji bîr kirine yanî. Ma te xwest bixwe bêje... Look, he has forgotten those things. I wanted him to say it himself...
E Apê Hesen, ama tiştin ji bîr kirine. Uh Uncle Hassan, but he has forgotten things.
Wek tu jî zarokê wî yî, em dixwazin... Since you are his child, we want...
Jiyana wî da gî ta'be û cefa heye. In his life, there is only exhaustion and suffering.
Ew çû ciyê... He went to places...
Tu car reşhaş dikir? Tu car diçû reşhaş dikir? Did he ever do 'reşhaş' [sprinkling/winnowing black grain]? Did he ever go and do winnowing?
Çawa dikir le... How could he not do it, man...
Carekê dihat bê daran binê Remedanê... Once he was coming without trees below Remedana...
Li ew bi kerê diçû... Ewan kerê wan binî zinêr werbû, cem zinorî zîn. He was going by donkey... Their donkey fell below the rock/cliff, near the saddle rock.
Ker çû. The donkey went [fell/died].
Dema diçû kar dikir, na te dî diçû... When he went to work, no you saw he went...
Cût û ev tiştê karê gunda yanî. Plowing and these village work things.
Dikir, yanî dikir wi yanî. Tiştin vêra ew derbas ne... He did it, meaning he did it like that. Things didn't pass him by...
Tê bûn yanî. They happened.
Tişta tev jêra balkêş naha çavê xwe nedidîn, berî vê bi dusal e. All these interesting things, now his eyes didn't see, two years before this.
E biçû nav hêr, guta ver vêra ye, godas vêra ye, biçî vêra, ev eşêrta... If he went into the figs, he'd say the path is this way, the hole is this way, go this way, this tribe...
Û we çavê xwe nedidî, bixwe diçû ser didî. And since his eyes didn't see, he went to it himself by feel.
Didî. He found it.
Bes ne yanî didî yanî zokirê xa mekin bû, dizanî kinî kuder e, dikir bin erdê bi şev, bi şev biro vêra ferq nedikir, diçû didî. But not meaning he saw, meaning his memory was strong, he knew where was where, he went under the ground [shortcuts/valleys] at night, night or day made no difference to him, he went and found it.
Bes piştyî nexweş bû, îşteno zakîra wî jî zeîf bû. But after he got sick, well now his memory has become weak too.
Em ji Apê Hesen pirsin. Let's ask Uncle Hassan.
Apê Hesen? Uncle Hassan?
Hê? Huh?
Tu diçûyî nav zeytûnê xwe? Did you go into your olive trees?
Dema tu diçûyî, te çawa dizanî te va darê şort? When you went, how did you know [which was] the sweet/short tree?
Tevr û dase bû. It was pickaxe and sickle.
Te çû te zanî kuder e û telwer didî yanî? You went, you knew where it was and you found the spot?
Erê. Yes.
Yanî te dıpîvand, gav dıpîvandin? Te çawa dikir yanî? Meaning did you measure, did you count steps? How did you do it?
Erê dema zoni me kerîke, diçûm ser, toxra. Yes when I knew the path/piece, I went straight to it.
E naha erdê we kuder e? Zeytûnê we kune? So where is your land now? Where are your olives?
Lu... li kuder e, li ûqêne, li geliyê rezone. Oh... where are they, in Uqene, in the valley of vineyards.
Li hemberêne, li geliyê şabaxon e. In the opposite side, in the valley of Shabaxon.
Te çawa ji hevdû derdixist? How did you distinguish them from each other?
Te digo ev şabaxon e, ev nizanim rez e... You said this is Shabaxon, this I don't know is the vineyard...
Te çawa ji hevdû derdixist? How did you distinguish them from each other?
Li rêmikê... li rêmika. By the paths... by the paths.
Rêmikê xwar û jor... The paths down and up...
Rêmikê xwar û jor? The paths down and up?
Rêmikê xwar û jor ferq dikir. I distinguished the paths down and up.
Te dizanî ev rêmika diçe şabaxonê? Ev diçe nizanim kuderê? You knew this path goes to Shabaxon? This one goes to I don't know where?
Erê. Yes.
Te çû darda, te dar jî hû dikir? You went to the trees, did you prune the trees too?
Erê, min mişêr digirt, min hû dikir. Yes, I held the saw, I pruned.
E te destê xwe nedibirî? And didn't you cut your hand?
Na. No.
Te zanîbû ev şax e, ev dar e? You knew this is a branch, this is the tree?
Min destê xwe lêdida, min zanî ev şax e, ev dar e. I touched it with my hand, I knew this is a branch, this is the tree.
Ev şax e, ev dar e. This is a branch, this is the tree.
Vêga, destê xwe bavêjê, mişêr bavêjê. Then, throw the hand [touch], throw the saw [cut].
Apê Hesen. Uncle Hassan.
Min gotibû behsa te dikin, gotin strana jî dibêje. I said they talk about you, they said he sings songs too.
Tu stranê gotî dibêyî? Do you sing songs that you've sung?
Kilama dibêm. I sing ballads/songs.
Tu kîjan kilamê dibêyî? Kîjan stranê dibêjî? Which ballad do you sing? Which song do you sing?
Ez kilamê Efrîn bûkek delal zanim. I know the ballad "Afrin is a beautiful bride".
De ka, ka em guhê xwe bidine vê stranê. Well let's, let's give our ears to this song.
[Singing] Efrîn bûk e delal e... [Singing] Afrin is a bride, beautiful...
[Singing] Cîwarê bav û kal e... [Singing] Land of forefathers...
[Singing] Çemê Xumxum dinale... [Singing] The Xumxum river groans...
[Singing] Hin gamoran zelale... [Singing] Some waters are clear...
[Singing] Rûyê sora gulgulî... [Singing] The red face, rosy...
[Singing] Li jor dor av diftilî... [Singing] Up around the water it turns...
[Singing] Şuaêbîna bilbilî... [Singing] Like the nightingale's appearance...
[Singing] Zîkê wan da bîn gulî... [Singing] In their belly [midst] bring roses...
[Singing] Ey hevalê partîzan... [Singing] Oh partisan friend...
[Singing] Gulo sîsin le çiyan... [Singing] Roses and lilies on the mountains...
[Singing] Ban dikin deşt û zozan... [Singing] The plains and plateaus are calling...
[Singing] Vîna xwedan herderan... [Singing] The will of the owners everywhere...
[Singing] Keç û xortê me kurdan... [Singing] Our Kurdish girls and boys...
[Singing] Destê xwe didan çekan... [Singing] Put their hands to weapons...
[Singing] Der dan cihê noxobon... [Singing] Gave the place to the traitors...
[Singing] Soz dane me na gerrin... [Singing] They promised us they won't return...
Way dengê te sax be. Spas Apê Hesen. May your voice be healthy. Thank you Uncle Hassan.
Em kêfxweş bûn me te naskir, em hatin cem te. We were happy to meet you, that we came to you.
E ehlen we sehlen. Uh, welcome.
Mala te ava be. May your house be prosperous [Thank you].
Te caba bê. You are welcome.
Spas ji te ra jî. Thanks to you too.
Ji te ra jî, ehla we sehlan, ehla we sehlan... Bi xhatina we ra, bi hatina qenatê Ronahî ra... mala we ava... To you too, welcome, welcome... With your coming, with the coming of Ronahi channel... thank you...
Ehla we sehlan. Welcome.
Jiber ku gund kevner e, gelek şikeft di gund de hene û gelek weke xanî bikar dianîn. Because the village is ancient, there are many caves in the village and many were used as houses.
Lê naha weke cihê sewalan ango embarxaneyên malê bikar tînin. But now they use them as places for animals or household storage.
Nêzî heştê û pênc xanî û bêhtirî hezar û dused kes li gund dijîn. Close to eighty-five houses and more than one thousand two hundred people live in the village.
Hemû xelkê gund nava têkiliyên baş dan e. All the people of the village are in good relations.
Di şahî û şînan da weke yek malbat bi hevre tevdigerin. In joys and mournings, they act together like one family.
Xelkê gund debara jiyana xwe weke hemû gundên herêmê bi çandiniyê dikin. The people of the village make their living through agriculture like all the villages in the region.
Ji xizmetkirina zeviyên zeytûnan û rezan di asta yekem de tê. Serving olive groves and vineyards comes in the first place.
Her wiha gund bi darên gûzê û simaqê jî navdar e. Also, the village is famous for walnut and sumac trees.
Digel wan hin malbat sewalên jîmih û bizinan jî xwedî dikin. Along with those, some families also raise sheep and goats.
Hejmarek ji xelkê gund weke bazirgan li bazarên Efrînê, Cindirêsê û Mabeta kar dikin. A number of the village people work as merchants in the markets of Afrin, Jindires, and Mabata.
Ehlen. Close to construction, mechanics, and in the institutions of the autonomous administration, they work in Afrin and Mabata.
Merheba. Hello.
Ehlan. Welcome.
Ehlen. Welcome.
Ser serî. [Greeting idiom] Upon my head.
Merheba ji te ra. Welcome.
Merheba ji te ra. Hello to you.
Ehlen we sehlen. Welcome.
Ehlen we sehlen. Hello.
Ehlen we sehlen. Welcome.
Kerem ke, kerem ke rûne. Please, please sit down.
Ya Bismillah. In the name of God.
Ka hinekî vir da, ka ji kerema xwe hinekî vir da were. Come a little closer, please come a little closer here.
Merhaba ji we ra. Hello to you.
Ehlen. Welcome.
Em hev nas bikin destpêkê? Shall we introduce each other first?
Ehlen we sehlen, me nas bike em jî we nas bikin. You are very welcome, know us and we will know you.
Ser serê min, navê min Şerîf e. With pleasure, my name is Sherif.
Navê min jî Hecî Omer. And my name is Hecî Omer.
Wiy ser serê min. Serî te sax be. Oh, with pleasure. Long life to you.
Navê min Ehmedê Ebû Fexrî merdê min. My name is Ehmedê Ebû Fexrî, my dear sir.
Ser serê min. With pleasure.
Navê min jî Şêxo ye. My name is Şêxo.
Ser serê min. Serî te sax be. With pleasure. Long life to you.
Di gund da çi karî dikin? Rû em mêvanê we ne. Hec Qasimo gotin tu kurtana çêdikî. What do you do in the village? We are your guests. Hec Qasim, they said you make saddles.
Ehlen we sehlen, ser serê min. You are very welcome, with pleasure.
Em jî meraq dikin, hema em derbas bûn cem we, kes na... di gund da kî kar dike, em dixwazin gunda nas bikin, taybetmendiya gunda nas bikin, karê gunda nas bikin. We are curious, since we passed by you... who works in the village, we want to know the village, know the village's characteristics, know the village's work.
Gotin tû jî kurtana çêdikî? They said you also make saddles?
Ez çêdikim. I make them.
Ne ez çêdikim, hîn kalê bavkê min çêdikir. It's not just me making them, my grandfather's father used to make them.
Eva meqesê... a kalê bavkê min e. These scissors... belong to my grandfather's father.
Çar bava? Four generations?
Eva meqesê... These scissors...
Navê wî çi bû? Kalê bavî te kî bû? Navê wî çi bû? What was his name? Who was your grandfather's father? What was his name?
Ewa... dî bû. Navê... kalê bavkê min, Omer bû. Navê bavkê min Sebrî bû. Navê min Omer e. That was... Di. The name of... my grandfather's father was Omer. My father's name was Sebri. My name is Omer.
Ser serê min. With pleasure.
Serî te sax be. Long life to you.
Belkî ew jî weka te çêdikir lê ne di bîra te da, ema ji kalkê te da? Maybe he made them like you, but not in your memory, but from your grandfather's time?
Ewa ne ji kalkê min da, ji çar bava da... That wasn't from my grandfather, from four fathers ago...
Yanî her bavekî pêncî bixe, hewa dused sal e. Meaning, if each father puts 50 (years), that is two hundred years.
Yanî her bavekî ku pêncî sal be... So if each father is 50 years...
Hawa meqesê dused sal e. These scissors are two hundred years old.
Û em ji Iraqê hatine. And we came from Iraq.
Ji kuderê hatine? Where did you come from?
Ji Iraqê... From Iraq...
Mûsil? Mosul?
Mûsil. Mosul.
Mûsilê kevin. Old Mosul.
We ji Mûsilê hatine? You came from Mosul?
Erê wele. Yes, by God.
Wiy Kurdê Mûsilê ne. Oh, you are Kurds of Mosul.
Erê wele. Yes, by God.
E ser çavê min. You are welcome.
We ji zû da hatine vira? Thank you.
We ji zû da hatine vira? Did you come here a long time ago?
Wiy de ji mêj e lê. Oh, it's been a long time, man.
Hîn kalê... kalê min hatibû, li Kilis dixebitî, li Heleb dixebitî. My grandfather... my grandfather had come, he worked in Kilis, he worked in Aleppo.
Bavkê min, Seferbîlikê wextînî, hat va gundî, li va gundî... My father, during the Seferberlik (mobilization) time, came to this village, in this village...
Ji mala... xalê min, mala Elûşê, zewicî. From the house of... my maternal uncle, the house of Elûş, he married.
Li vî gundî ma? He stayed in this village?
Li vî gundî ma. He stayed in this village.
E ka hinekî behsa kurtana bike. Te got... So talk a little about the saddles. You said...
Na berê te got tu çend sal î? Tu çend sal î? Temenê te? No, before that, you said how old are you? How old are you? Your age?
Temenê min? Heyştê û şeş. My age? Eighty-six.
Tu çend salan vî karî dikî? How many years have you been doing this work?
Belkî çil sal heye dikim. I've been doing it for maybe forty years.
Çil sal. Forty years.
E ka ji min ra, ema ser kurtan da, tu çawa vî karî dikî? Tu çawa çêdikî? So tell me, about the saddle, how do you do this work? How do you make it?
Ez çêdikim, şte va dewarê were, ez bipîvim, qeyasê bibim, û jê ra çêkim û ewê were lekê bibe. I make it, say this animal comes, I measure it, I take the size, and I make it for it and he comes and takes it away.
Mêvanê te çi karî dikin? Ka em binêrin ew çi karî dikin. What do your guests do? Let's see what they do.
Em cotkar in e. We are farmers.
Cotkar in. Farmers.
Em xizmet milk dikin. We serve the land.
Û tu? And you?
Wele ez jî ticarê dewar im. By God, I am an animal merchant.
Ha ticarê dewar. Ha, animal merchant.
Ya çîrokek, çîrokek, yêk we heye, yê vî gundî ye bi taybet. There is a story, a story, one of yours, belonging to this village specifically.
Dibên goyayî Hec Qasimo... ev çi çîrok e? Ka tu ji min ra bêje. Tu kî yî bêje? They say as if Hec Qasim... what is this story? Tell me. Who are you, tell me?
Ez wiy cîçikî zanim. I know that little story.
Ka ew çi çîrok çi ye? Daba... dibir bazarê, va digerandin... Bikerê çi bû ew çîroka? What is that story? Taking... taking to the market, walking it around... What was the subject of that story?
Ewa gokê dima, hewa heft sed û pêncî sal li vî gunda heye. That is a story of this village, it has been in this village for maybe seven hundred and fifty years.
De zemande ye, gokî xwe heye dibe derê bazarê, dêfseh dikin, nafiroşe. Şûn da tîne. In the old times, he has his ox, he takes it to the market, they inspect it, he doesn't sell. He brings it back.
Cok din dibe bazarê, dêfseh dikin, teke... tîne mal. Another time he takes it to the market, they inspect it, again... he brings it home.
E çima na... ne difrot an yanî? Why didn't... wasn't he selling it?
Nafiroşe. Boha da nake, xelk nakire. He doesn't sell. He doesn't set a price, people don't buy.
Arto ku derê bazarê, heywanî Arto elimî ye, bi xwe debîẍo jav dike, ber wiy yêkê dêfseh ke... When he goes to the market, the animal is used to him, it throws the tanner by itself, before that one inspects it...
Haa... êdî da derê... dêfseh dike. Haa... so he gives... inspects.
Hewa... Like that...
Yanî ev çîrok hewa. Meaning this story is like that.
Hewa. Like that.
Ka tu çawa kar dikî, ka ji min ra... Tell me how you work, tell me...
Hê... E ka rabim... Heh... Let me get up...
Ka rabim. Kerê te jî heye? Let me get up. Do you have a donkey too?
Na... ê xelkê... xelk tîne cem min. No... people's... people bring them to me.
E kê kurtan çêke. Ka... So who will make the saddle...
O noka hewa wuni ne. Oh, right now they are like that.
E ka ker îne, ka ker îne. Bring a donkey, bring a donkey.
Ker î ko. Where is the donkey.
Herin, herin, herin. Go, go, go.
Tê naha çi bikî? What are you going to do now?
Dê wana bipîvim, bosta bipîvim. I will measure them, I will measure by hand span.
Mitrî ta tune? Don't you have a tape measure?
Na. No.
Çawa wusa derketin? How did it turn out like that?
Ew vê... qiyasê didim. That... I am taking the measurement.
Çend bost derketin? How many spans came out?
Sê bost, feteh pîçe. Three spans, and a bit more.
O yek... Oh one...
O didu... Oh two...
O sisê... Oh three...
Hewa bû qeyasa kurtên. That was the saddle measurement.
Arto kurtan, êke j ve da, were pîvan... were çêkirin, bi kulav, bi sextiyan, bi ser cil, du were dûtin, gib hev keve... Now the saddle, one from here, came for measuring... came for making, with felt, with leather, with cloth cover, it will be sewn, fit together...
Kêlik şaş bibe nabe. Bavkê min rehmetî, ez jê dixebitim, lê nêrî go "Va kelya şaş e!" If the side is crooked, it won't do. My late father, I was working with him, he looked and said "This side is crooked!"
Ê law min go di kurtê da kêlik şaş e. Go "Ebşile li qilê çavê te xim! Pîşê kulfetî te tilberxwê na keve!" Eh boy, I said in the saddle, the side is crooked. He said "I will hit you on the corner of your eye! Your family won't have a livelihood!"
E qehriyam xeyilî bûm yanî, paşê min go "Xo hewa bavkê min e." Dixwazê ez bialimim. I got upset, I was very angry, then I said "Well, he is my father." He wants me to learn.
Min çêkir ew kêlya ha... ha... Go "Bû!" I fixed that side... ha... He said "It's done!"
Du ye demê te ker jî nêşîne? Does it mean it won't hurt the donkey either?
Ker î lê... ne nêşîne. Gi bipîvan e. The donkey... no it won't hurt. It's all by measurement.
Giştk, heta kêl bi kêl hatî pîvan. Hatî çêkirin, go wano... Everything, until side by side it came to measurement. It was made, so that they...
Kêl... gib hev, na bi êke orto lêkin, û hem pê bara bikşînin. The side... together, not one in the middle pushing, and both carrying the load.
E kîş, te re çîrokek li ser kurtanciya hebû. Ka neke vir da, bîre. There was a story about saddlers you had. Don't go this way, remember.
Bîrim. I remember.
Dibe rojekê kurtanciyekî di gundekî da hebî... Once there was a saddler in a village...
He. Yes.
Go ew kurtanciya rehmetî bî. Çû ser dilovaniya xwe. That saddler passed away. Went to his mercy.
He. Xwedê rehma xwe lêke. Yes. May God have mercy on him.
Go çi qasê kerê we mintiqe hene, we gundî hene, gi keyfxweş bûn go kurtanciya mirî. As many donkeys as there were in that region, in that village, all were happy that the saddler died.
Go... haşa, go kere kî jî baqil hebî, go vê kerê rabî dolgîrî. Say... excuse me, if there was a smart donkey, say this donkey started mourning.
He. Yes.
Ya bavelê xwan go çima tu didêgirî yanî? Kurtancî mirî tu keyfxweş be. His friends said why are you mourning? The saddler died, be happy.
Na te dêgirî? Why do you mourn?
Ya go kurtanciyê berê qeyasê me zane. He said the old saddler knew our measurements.
Go ecemê kurtanciyekî ecem were... He said if a novice saddler comes...
Ê zone be. A novice.
Go heta beilma qeyasê me, go ê pişta me carna biêşîne, carna hestî me biêşîne. He said until he learns our measurements, he said he will hurt our backs sometimes, hurt our bones sometimes.
Go haya beilma ser pişta me, go wextekî here. Go ez we manê didêgirîm. He said until he learns about our backs, he said some time will pass. He said I am mourning for that reason.
Ev jî çîrok li ser kurtanciya ye. This is also a story about saddlers.
Jî gundî Mûskê hebû, brakê min Xwedê rehma xwe lêke, em mezin me hew jî dixebitîn. There was one in the village of Muskê, my brother, God have mercy on him, we were big, we were working too.
Ê îdî makînedote, ê qatir ji pişê ravin. Hewal ku xayî, go "Biner, biner" go... Eh so the tractor came, mules were removed from work. A friend who was naughty, said "Look, look" said...
"Cemîl tîtî ne" go "Qosî şa dibin, tije..." "Cemîl is bringing them" said "How happy they are, full..."
E ka hinekî bişixule, ka hinekî dest bi karê xwe bike em sekinîne. So work a little, start your work a little, we are standing.
Hewa kefek... kef. This is a palm protector... palm.
Ne ji we be neşuxulînim? Would it be rude if I make you work?
Na, ê şuxulandin. No, I will work.
Ev jî qûçê dewar e? Is this also a horn of an animal?
Ewa qûçî berxwa ye. That is a ram's horn.
Hevne te, qûçê xezalê ye. And this one, is a gazelle's horn.
Hevno? This one?
Ê xezalan e. It is a gazelle's.
E te got ez naxebitim? So you said I don't work?
Ez naxebitim, em noka kal bûne, çavê me nabîne. I don't work, we are old now, our eyes don't see.
Em îro ji xatirê te ra, ji xatirê hatina we ra... We today for your sake, for the sake of your visit...
Wezî te da ye bira... ha? Did you put oil on it brother... ha?
Ne zeytê dayê. Did you put oil.
Zeytê dayê re, zeytê dayê. He put oil on it, he put oil.
Ne zeytê be, bavkê min rehmetî, Xwedê rehma xwalikê digot "Kê bişuxule, gerek salê te lîtrek zeyt bi şûjinê xelas ke." If it's not oil, my late father, God have mercy on him, used to say "Whoever works, needs to finish a liter of oil a year with the awl."
Na wa be na şuxule. If not, he doesn't work.
Çima we fêyda wî çi ye hewandî? Why, what is its benefit, that one?
E hewa... pê kêlo dikşînin. That... they pull the sides with it.
Çi ferq navbera wî û wî ye? What is the difference between this and that?
Hewa pê kêlo dikşînin. Pê diştînin. Yanî gelek... With this they pull the sides. They tighten with it. Meaning a lot...
Gerek e. It is necessary.
Bo eza çiqo hay... Because I... how much...
E ka hinekî ji min ra ser aletê xwe bipeyive, çi çi heye? So talk to me a little about your tools, what do you have?
He? Huh?
Amûrê te çi heye? What tools do you have?
Hawa kêra bavkê min e. This is my father's knife.
Hawa kêr. This is a knife.
Hawa meqesê, merîkî me Helebî hebû, ew jî kurtancî bû dixebitî, rehmetî bû, lîw honyat ji min ra. This is scissors, we had a man from Aleppo, he was also a saddler, working, he was late (deceased), he left it to me.
Hawa çokûçê bavkê min e. This is my father's hammer.
Hawa... a bizmarokî min e. This... is my nail puller.
Tu bi vê çi karî dikî? What do you do with this?
Vê kar dikim. I work with this.
Ew jî meqes e? Is that scissors too?
Hew jî meqes a bavkê min e. That is also my father's scissors.
Hawa jî tûmax e. This is also a wooden mallet.
Bê dikute yanî pûş werê... He beats with it, meaning the straw...
Heta ha hewa... Until here this...
Hawa cû ye. This is a packing needle.
Bi cû de'bîni ser ke me çêkirî, pûş dikinî û me didozikî xwê û ştatji dikim. With the needle, I pierce the head we made, I fill with straw and I sew it and tighten it.
Nc... Em rojêkê giştî li cem te bîn, hey em binî te çawa kar dikî. Nc... We should be with you for a whole day, so we can see how you work.
Ezê xatirê xwe ji we bixwazim. Mala we ava be. I will say goodbye to you. May your house be prosperous.
Dest û çava zî. Your hands and eyes too.
Spas dikim. Thank you.
Ehlen we sehlen. Welcome.
Spas, serçava. Thanks, you are welcome.
Ehlen we sehlen j hatina we ra, ehlen we sehlen. Welcome for your visit, welcome.
Spas, serçava. Thanks, you are welcome.
Muxtarê gund Heydo yek ji kesê navdar di gundê Hecî Qasima da ye û nêzî 40 salî karê muxtariyê kiribû û gelek xizmet ji gund ra pêşkêş kiribû. The village Mukhtar Heydo was one of the famous people in the village of Hecî Qasima and had done the mukhtar work for nearly 40 years and had offered many services to the village.
Ezîzê Omê weke kesayeteke civakî bi nav û deng bû. Ezîzê Omê was famous as a social personality.
Di nava gel da dihat hezkirin û naskirin. He was loved and known among the people.
Mustê Bozo yek ji zanyarên ola îslamî bû. Mustê Bozo was one of the scholars of the Islamic religion.
Di vî warî da xebata wî ya berbiçav giriye. His visible work in this field has been significant.
Henanê Meyrê û Evdê Eho, weke leşkerên serhildêr bi nav û deng ê Mehê Îbşaşê bûn. Henanê Meyrê and Evdê Eho, were famous as rebel soldiers of Mehê Îbşaşê.
Û ew beştarî gelek şer û cengan li dijî dagirkeriya Fransiyan bibûn. And they had participated in many battles and wars against the French occupation.
Mamosteyê seretayî Mihemed Heso gelek kar di warê xizmetguzariyê de ji gund ra pêşkêş kiriye. Primary school teacher Mihemed Heso has offered many works in the field of service to the village.
Weke gihandina elektrîkê, avakirina dibistanekê nûjen û sererastkirina rêya bingehîn a gund. Such as delivering electricity, building a modern school, and repairing the village's main road.
Lê mixabin, ew dibûyereke xemgîn da... But unfortunately, in a sad event...
Di sala 2012an da li ser rêya Efrînê û Helebê bi guleya segvanan jiyana xwe ji dest da. In the year 2012, on the Afrin and Aleppo road, he lost his life by a sniper's bullet.
Ay lê canê dîsa te can a min can î, vê sibê serê vê sibê wezê daketim qûça gogayê minê bala zêna xwe dayê... Oh my soul, again you represent my soul, this morning, early this morning I will go down to the alley of the ball game, I will look at my beauty...
Kefere ye, mebalê min li Xwedayê min makune. It is heathenism, my reliance remains on my God.
Ebdilhemîd bi perde ye, biçî te bi perde ye. Abdulhamid is veiled, may he go with a veil.
Bi toz e, bi xumar e, bi gumgum e, bi misîn e, bi dîbek e, bi argîn û bi qehwe ye. With dust, with haze, with distinct sounds, with jugs, with mortars, with fire, and with coffee.
Kanî kî mezinê dewran, kefere ye. Where is the great one of the era, it is heathenism.
Nemaye, înşallah hêjana min vê canî ji vê kûnî bext û mirazê mi ji vê ra qet naye. He remains not, God willing my dear one, from this soul, from this tent, luck and desire do not come to me at all from this.
Eger, eger çi qasî malik zengîn û xanedan be, ditengî pey wekî mîrê aşiqê xirabe ye. If, no matter how rich and noble the house is, in tight times he follows like the prince of a ruined lover.
Eger çi qasî malik feqîr be, ne ji berê paşê da cîhê şêr û pilingan zêwekim jê têye. No matter how poor the house is, is it not that from the very beginning, the place of lions and tigers comes from it?
Ey lê... lê... lê... lê... Oh my... oh... oh... oh...
Rê xezala min dera bilê, lê yeman. The path of my gazelle is up high, oh my, oh my.
Belê temaşevanên hêja. Yes, dear viewers.
Îro em li gundê Hec Qasima ne. Today we are in the village of Hec Qasim.
Emê xwestin îro lîstikekê, vî gundî bi taybetî nasbikin. We wanted to introduce a game today, specifically from this village.
Ez mereq dikim, wî jî mereq dikin, emê maçû destxwakirinê. I am curious, and they are curious too, [about] "going to hide the hand" (Maçû destxwakirinê).
Wina dibêjin "çûna destxwakirinê". They call it "the going of hiding the hand".
Ez û kesêt vê gundî da, şeş kes in. Myself and people from this village, there are six people.
Bi min va heft maçû destxwakirinê, yanî wina dibêjin "maçû destxwakirinê". Including me, seven "going to hide the hands", meaning that's what they call it, "going to hide the hand".
Gelek lîstikê me hene. Lîstikê gunda hene. We have many games. There are village games.
Dema em zarok bûn, ciwan bûn, taxikê dihatin, emê dîtin zarok çawa lîstikê xwe dilîzin. When we were children, were young, neighborhoods would gather, we would see how children played their games.
Lê ew tiştî Kurda bi taybetî tune ye. But that specific Kurdish thing is gone.
Ew kevin da hene lîstik, me gelek lîstik me hene. Those existed in the past, we have many games.
Îro me xwest em vê lîstikê nîşanî we bikin di vê gundî da. Today we wanted to show you this game in this village.
Apê Hêja jî behsa gelek lîstik kirin, na emê jî bipirsin bi hevra. Uncle Hêja also mentioned many games, no, we will ask together.
Apê Hêja, na we behsa lîstika kir. Uncle Hêja, you mentioned the games.
Çi qas lîstik li ba we heye? How many games do you have here?
Pir hene wela. There are many, by God.
Em bi kenderê dilîstin. We used to play with 'kender' (a type of game).
Em bi tûşê dilîstin. We used to play with 'tûş'.
Em bi xeleçê dilîstin. We used to play with 'xeleç' (knucklebones/pebbles).
Em bi gula dilîstin. We used to play with 'gul' (marbles).
Em bi çavşorkê dilîstin. We used to play hide-and-seek (blindfold).
Em bi zunaka dilîstin, em kumê sipîk dilîstin, em bi kenderê dilîstin. We used to play 'zunaka', we played 'white hat', we played with 'kender'.
Lîstik pir bûn, sorşoyî germîka dilîstin. The games were many, we played 'sorşoyî germîka' (hot and cold).
Yanî berê gelek lîstikê we hebûn, we dilîst? Meaning in the past you had many games, you played?
Em ketin şev, şevro dilîstin qaçax. We played into the night, day and night we played 'qaçax' (fugitive/hide and seek).
Qaçax bi şevro, em teva hev bûn heta hefta şev em dilîstin. 'Qaçax' at night, we were all together, we played until seven at night.
Kaçik ji ber dilîstin? Did girls play as well?
Keçik jî, û xurt jî, û... qe manizanim, em gi wekî xûk bira bûn. Girls too, and boys too, and... I don't know, we were all like siblings.
Tam, daîmî. Completely, always.
Çend sal in ev lîstikan wesa kêm mane, winda bûne yanî? How many years has it been that these games have become so rare, have disappeared?
Wela cerki millet çûyî vê Halebê. Well, ever since the people went to this Aleppo.
Û vê lîstikan li nav millet qut bûn. Cerki vê televîzyon, melevîzyon derketine, vê lîstikan qut bûn. And these games were cut off from among the people. Ever since these televisions and such came out, these games were cut off.
Cerki vê televîzyona derketine û vê xelewîna derketine, lîstik... vê lîstikê berê em pê dilîstin, nema. Ever since these televisions came out and these distractions came out, games... these games we used to play before, are no more.
Vê xelk hatî bêjer, û dest kolê du hakimê, mano qeçik nema. These people became idle, looking at their phones (lit. hand on the slave of the ruler), children are no more.
Qeçikî noka, deh dused salî, deh pênc salî, deh sê salî, heft salî, gi xelawî vê rûne. The children now, twelve years old, fifteen years old, thirteen years old, seven years old, they all sit with this distraction.
Gi şxulê xelawî dilîzin. Întîbahê berê nema, bîr kirin. They all play with the distraction. The attention of the past is gone, forgotten.
Yanî jiyana berê xweştir bû yan te behsa dîkê? Meaning the life of the past was nicer, or what are you discussing?
Na, ê berê xweş bû. No, the past was nice.
Jiyana berê xweş bû. The life of the past was nice.
Jiyana berê xweş bû. Em qeçik bûn, yekî bi emrê min ra me bidî, em diçûn cem hevdu. The life of the past was nice. We were small, if I saw someone my age, we would go to each other.
Şalê min ra bibê, her av nîna, min henê bibê rehmet li dê û bavê kê te bê. Even if my pants were torn, no water, I would say mercy upon your parents.
Vê karê di nav muştema da daîmî hebû. This work (cooperation) always existed within the community.
Ne li vê gundî, li mentîqa Kurda, paf da wa bû. Not just in this village, in the Kurdish region, everywhere was like that.
Belê raste. Yes, that is true.
Yanî me yekî mezin dîtiba, em diçûn giş kuja gundî ba, bas mezin bû, me îxtîram dikir. Meaning if we saw an elder, even if we were at the corner of the village, just because he was old, we respected him.
Me digo ya ap o, ya xal o, ya nêmakê, ella bi navî ap xalê bang dikiro. We would say 'Oh uncle', 'Oh maternal uncle', we would call them by the name of uncle.
Bas noka qiçkî, qiçkî me me nas nake. But now the small ones, our small ones don't know us.
Te behsa dîkê, jiyana berê xweş bû. You are discussing that the life of the past was nice.
Jiyana berê xweş bû. The life of the past was nice.
Em dixwazin rojekî bîra vegerînin. We want to bring back the memory for a day.
Erê, bê guman. Yes, without a doubt.
Belê raste. Em na em behsa lîstikê bikin. Spas ji bo te. Yes, true. Now let us discuss the game. Thank you.
Ya lan wasehlen. You are welcome.
Emê nişta te pirsin. We will ask you now.
Navê ev lîstikê we hazir kiriye? What is the name of this game you have prepared?
Navê vê gundê, Sorîka Germîka ye. The name in this village is "Sorîka Germîka" (Red/Hot and Warm).
Sorîka û Germîka. Sorîka and Germîka.
Sorîka û Germîka. Berê munasaba, mesela eîda, ser dera, em şev kombidibûn, derdiketin, em dilîstin. Sorîka and Germîka. In the past, on occasions, for example Eids, on the thresholds, we would gather at night, go out, and play.
Ev tiştî giştî... Is this a general thing...
Tebean, li hem vê derê dilîstin, bi havzêr dilîstin. Of course, they played everywhere, they played in the summer.
Em şev, kî cem me kom dibî, digo wara em keyf bikin. Em li ber sekinê dilîstin. At night, whoever gathered with us, would say come let's have fun. We played while standing around.
Yanî hef caran çend kes, ne şeş kes in? Meaning generally how many people, aren't there six people?
Em pênc kes dilîzin. We play with five people.
Pênc? Five?
Çar kurtik, û kurtik ortê, te zaniya. Four piles (of dirt), and a pile in the middle, you know.
Bû ewa dê pêncî, yek li wir disekine, û çar jî, her yek kurtikê yekî, û yek jî li wir disekine. That makes five, one stands there, and four, each one has a pile, and one stands there.
Hîç ki destê xwe dike, da vê bare mesela germîka, yanî hîn hîç ti li vê dike lê xê, gi bes sor bî na meşe. Whoever puts their hand in, if in this case for example it's 'warm', meaning nothing has touched it yet, but if it is red, it doesn't walk (work).
Gerek li banê lê keve? Does it have to touch the roof/top?
Li erdê jî, tûl dibe, dîsa dike lê xîne, te zaniya. Even on the ground, it becomes dust, again it hits it, you know.
Gi bes ê kîna meşê, te lêxist. Gi te lêxist, dike bişewitî. If it's just hatred/anger, it doesn't work, you hit it. If you hit it, you make it burn (lose).
Û çakir gû sorîka, no meşê te lêxê heta sor dibe, te zaniya. And regarding the 'sorîka' (the hidden object), you can't hit it until it becomes red (found), you know.
Gi kê lêxist mesela, gi çûyê xweş kurtê xwe, mesela çûyê xweş kurtê derxist, îdin çûyê xwe kir kurtê gindê dişewite, derdikeve hew dikeve şûnê gindê. Te zaniya. If someone hit it for example, if he took his stick out of his pile, if he took the stick out, then he put his stick in the other pile, it burns, he goes out and falls into the other place. You know.
Temam. Ka em ba vir temaşekin. Okay. Let us watch here.
Keremke. Please.
Yalla. Let's go.
Germîka! Warm! (Getting close!)
Sorîka! Red! (Found it!)
Germîka! Warm!
Vêda neçe, vêda neçe! Don't go that way, don't go that way!
Sorîka. Red.
Germîka. Warm.
Sorîka! Red!
Germîka. Warm.
Sorîka! Red!
Germîka. Warm.
Sorîka! Red!
Germîka. Warm.
Sorîka! Red!
Belê temaşevanên hêja, îro jî em li gundê Hec Qasima bûn. Yes, dear viewers, today we were in the village of Hec Qasim.
Me bi hevra naskir, me bi hevra şûpa, çi xweşbûna vê gunda, çiyayê vê cana. We got to know together, we tracked together, the beauty of these villages, the mountains of this soul.
Bi rastî mera, destê mera ji vê gunda nabin. Truly for us, our hands do not leave these villages.
Dema mera serdana gundê me dike, mi xwe ben, bernama me li bir bida bû, emê xatirê xwe ji we bixwazin. When our turn visits our village, I would like, our program was here, we will say our goodbyes to you.
Hayî heftokê din, emê dîsa barê we bin. Bi xatirê we. Until the next week, we will be with you again. Goodbye.
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