Bir Ayrılık Bir Yoksulluk Bir Ölüm
Parting, Poverty, and Passing
ayrılık: parting, separation
yoksulluk: poverty
ölüm: death
passing: poetic euphemism for death
Vara vara vardım o kara taşa
Traveling far and long, I finally reached that dark stone.
vara vara: traveling on and on
varmak: to arrive, to reach
kara: black, dark
taş: stone
Hasret ettin beni kavim kardaşa
You left me longing for my own kin and brothers.
hasret: longing
etmek: to make, to cause
kavim: kin, clan
kardeş: sibling, brother
Sebep ne gözden akan kanlı yaşa?
What is the cause of these blood-stained tears falling from my eyes?
sebep: reason
göz: eye
akmak: to flow
kanlı: bloody
yaş: tear
Bir ayrılık, bir yoksulluk, bir ölüm
One’s separation, one’s poverty, one’s death.
ayrılık: separation
yoksulluk: poverty
ölüm: death
Nice sultanları tahttan indirdin
You have cast many a sultan down from his throne.
nice: many
sultan: sultan, ruler
taht: throne
indirmek: to bring down
Nicelerin gül benzini soldurdun
You have drained the rosy color from many a face.
gül beniz: rose-colored complexion
soldurmak: to make fade, to wither
Niceleri gelmez yola gönderdin
You have sent many on a road from which none return.
nice: many
göndermek: to send
gelmez yol: the path from which one never comes back (death)
Bir ayrılık, bir yoksulluk, bir ölüm
One’s separation, one’s poverty, one’s death.
ayrılık: separation
yoksulluk: poverty
ölüm: death
Karacaoğlan der kondum göçülmez
Karacaoğlan says: I have come to a dwelling from which one cannot depart.
Karacaoğlan: 17th-century folk poet
kondum: I settled, I arrived
göçülmez: cannot be migrated from
Acıdır ecel şerbeti içilmez
Bitter is the sherbet of death — it cannot be drunk.
ecel: death, mortality
şerbet: sherbet, symbolic drink
içilmez: cannot be drunk
Üç derdim var birbirinden seçilmez
I have three sorrows, each indistinguishable from the other.
üç: three
dert: sorrow, affliction
seçilmez: cannot be distinguished, none is lesser
Bir ayrılık, bir yoksulluk, bir ölüm
One’s separation, one’s poverty, one’s death.
ayrılık: separation
yoksulluk: poverty
ölüm: death
