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ԶԱՐԹԻՐ ԼԱՕ

ZARTIR LAO

(Sorry! This got to be longer than originally intended)

ԶԱՐԹԻ՛Ր ԼԱՕ

 

Խուժան ազգեր* զօրք է ժողուէր

Եկեր Մշոյ դաշտն է պատել

Սուլթան կուզէ ջնջել մըզի,

Զարթի՛ր լաօ, մռնիմ քըզի:

 

Խեղճ Մշեցին մնաց լալով,

Օտար երկիրներ ման գալով.

Մեռաւ թուրքի պարտքը տալով,

Զարթի՛ր լաօ, մռնիմ քըզի:

 

Ինչ անիծեմ թուրք ազգերին

Որ սպաննեց ջոջ Ափօյին.

Մեր յոյսը թողեց օրօրոցին,

Զարթի՛ր լաօ, մռնիմ քըզի:

 

Սուլթան կուզէ ջնջել մըզի,

Զարթի՛ր լաօ, մռնիմ քըզի:

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*It seems some may have got the words (almost)correct. As above some have interpreted it as “azger/ազգեր” i.e “nations”, while the original “askyar” was meant to mean “(mob) soldier”. Was it mant to be “khouzhann/khozhan@ zinvor e zhoghver”? Now I am more confused. Did the original mean “azger/nations” or “asker” the furkish word for “soldier”?

One English translation I find goes, with some editing by me. I had to amend it more than I planned, mainly to bring it to rhyme and rhythm ;

Խուժան ԱսկեարKhouzhan Asgyar

 

Mobs of soldiers have gathered

And surrounded the Plain of Moush.

The sultan plands to wipe us off,

Awake, my son, I die for you.

 

Poor Moushetsi died drowned in tears,

Died walking through foreign land,

Died paying taxes to the turk.

Awake, my son I die for you.

 

What shall I say to curse the turk

Who killed our own chief Arabo

And left our hopes in the cradle

Awake, my son, I die for you.

 

The sultan plans to wipe us off

Awake, my son , I die for you

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Some time ago there was a question;

http://hyeforum.com/index.php?showtopic=1635&st=0

by aurguplu

raffi, would you please be so kind as to tell me what these phrases mean in armenian:

zartnir lawo mernim kezi

and

a bolshaye

just curious. i keep seeing them all over the forum and don't know what they mean.

thanx a million in advance.

regards,

ali suat

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There were several responses, some off the cuff, others a little more logical. Some even suggested that it was Kurdish word.

“LAO” is in the Moush dialect. I wish I could find a site about the “Moush Dialect”. Let us hear from our Mshetsi friends. SAS, where are you?

In that case I will go the Dialects of Kilikia-Marash.

 

ԾՕ կամ ԾՕԼԱ« այ տղայ , ով դու» արական կոչական ձայնարկութիւն

Արական ԾՕԼԱ, իգական ՔԱԼԱ, որտեղից ՔԱ կամ ԼԱ ինչպէս ՔԱ ԱՂՋԻԿ կամ ԼԱ-ԽՉԻՆ. As always the Armenian Ա is bent to Է where ՔԱԼԱ /QALA/turns to ՔԷԼԷ/QELE as in the Marash dialect - «Քէլէ քուրի/ աղչին հալա իկո, իմ գլոխին մինծ պիլո կո» (Hey you sister, do come here, on my head, a big disaster ).

ԾՕ/ ԾՈԼԱ seems to be from the Georgian «ծուլի» to mean boy/son մանչ/որդի: as opposed to QALA/QLA female child, which also seems to be from the Georgian QALI/ՔԼԱԻ/ ՔԱԼԷ.

Seems like in time “tso” was deemed rude and impolite, only applied to you-know-who “tso lakot, and instead the “la” was adopted as a universal address as in “la-akhjin and la-tgho”. even if in the Latin/French LA is feminine as opposed to the masculine LE . Are you here “LA” Louise or “LE” Louis XIV?

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As above, Ajarian does not comment on “la” but he talks about “ԾՕ/tso” (hey you boy!), where he goes to “ԼԱ/la” , an abbreviation of “ՔԼԱ/ QLA”. some use the furkified version “kele/քէլէ” as in “qele aghjin hele iko, im glokhin mindz belo mi ko/ hey you girl come here, a big calamity on my head”. In time “qele aghjik/aghchin” evolved to “la-ghchin”. Similarly, the boys were addressed (tso tgha) as “la tgho”, which, upon further development turned to “ԼԱ ՏՕ/la to“**. Has “lao” gone through similar modifications?

** In Aleppo, some people thought the Marash dialect was funny, (I know many quotes, many a mother would call their sons “lato“ and their daughters “laghchin“) would address Marashtsi boys as “լատօ/lato” short of calling them “lakot”???.

In the Kilikian dialects at btimes the word is pronounced as “լէկիւտ/lekut” where the Է is like the A as in “bed/bad” and ԻՒ as in the French U .

 

 

 

And of course, when talking about “la-tgho”,” l-akhjin”, we cannot ignore another word “lakot/լակոտ”, usually to mean a young dog(See? I did not say SOB). It also means the young of lions and other beasts. It seems the word may have come to us from the Caucasian languages, specifically from the Georgian “levki//լէվկի- շան լակոտ, առիւծի կորիւն”.

When we were young our ancestors referred to boys of the other faith as “lakot” just as they called the girls “khzak” Hi Miss Piggy!

http://community.post-gazette.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Components.UserFiles/00.00.00.21.57/Miss-Piggy.jpg

We took it literally that “lakot” was an official name for boys of that other faith.

Although as a rule both “lakot” and “լաճ/lach” are used in not so complimentary sense, look how Komitas used the word in an endearingly if sad way.

Listen to the Armenian Caruso- Armenak Shahmouratian;

Անտունի

 

Սիրտս նման է էն փլած տներ,

Կոտրեր գերաններ, խախտեր է սըներ,

Բուն պիտի դնեն մէջ վայրի հաւքեր,

Երթամ ձիկ թալեմ էն ելման գետեր,

Ըլնիմ ձկներու ձագերաց ընկեր:

Ա՜յ, տօ լա՜ճ տնաւեր:

 

Սեւ ծով մ՛եմ տեսել, սպիտակն էր բոլոր,

Ալին կը զարկէր, չէր խառնի յիրոր,

Էն ո՞րն է տեսել մէկ ծովն երկթաւոր,

Անտունի սիրտն է պղտոր ու մոլոր,

Ա՜խ, իսկի մի՛ լնիք սրտիկ սեւաւոր:

Ա՜յ, տօ լա՜ճ..

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PS. Each of those words “lakot” and “lach” deserve their own respective treatment. At another time maybe.

[Louise Kiffer]

dear Arpa, in French : it is "Le Louis"masculin "La Louise" (féminin)

 

As for the poem Zartir Lao, I had translated it in French, but I looked for it , I did not find it.

I have a book of tales from the Soviet period (1967) there is a lexique at the end of the book

Lao is not written with a o

Լաո : որդի որդյակ զավակս

 

I had translated "mon enfant"

[Arpa]

No. This is not Comedistan. It is not funny. It is outright criminal with the capital C.

 

Have anyone seen these stories at NewsAM?

I will abstain from airing the videos, you can see them here;

 

http://news.am/eng/news/62553.html

 

In fact the following quote is an edited abbreviated version. From what I had seen originally.

 

June 09, 2011 | 00:04

Youth wing of Turkish football club Fenerbahce web site broadcasted via YouTube a song, the melody of which coincides with Armenian song Zartnir, lao (Wake up, hero) to a tag.

 

Then this;

June 10, 2011 | 11:10

Supporters of Turkish football club Fenerbahce will no longer sing the anthem to the music of the Armenian song “Zartnir, lao” (Wake up, hero).

Fenerbahce fans found out that the music of the song is taken from the song “Zartnir, lao,” which contains anti-Turkish wordings, Sabah newspaper reports.

The author of the anthem Hakan Yavuz said that they did not know that it was an Armenian music***. “Henceforth, we will not sing this song,” Yavuz noted.

Youth wing of web site broadcasted via YouTube a song, the melody of which coincides with Armenian song Zartnir, lao (Wake up, hero)**.

** This may be a poetic/linguitic license at best, even if it does not diminish the impact. We know that “Zartir Lao” means “Wake up my Child”. Maybe we should amend the words to “Zartir Lao mertsur shunerin”.

***He did not know it was Armenian music? Does the SSO know who or what an Armenian is? Just in case, SSO stands for "shun-shan-ordi". Just as that SSO does not know that Merik Merik and Sari Aghjik are also Armenian songs.