ʿAmr ibn Kulthūm: Wine Gathering, Umm ʿAmr, Mortality and Parting (Verses 1–11)

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• Which tribe did ʿAmr ibn Kulthūm belong to?
• Which king’s court appears in the introduction?
• What is the function of “alā” at the opening?
• Who is addressed by “hubbī”?
• What does “ṣaḥn” mean in verse 1?
• What does “al-Andarīnā” identify?
• What does “mushaʿshaʿah” describe?
• Which rhetorical device appears in “kaʾanna l-ḥuṣṣa fīhā”?
• What does the commentary associate “al-ḥuṣṣ” with?
• Who is “dhī l-lubānah”?
• What does “ḥattā yalīnā” mark?
• What do “al-laḥiz al-shaḥīḥ” describe?
• What change is claimed in verse 4?
• What does “ṣabanti l-kaʾsa ʿannā” mean?
• In “majrāhā l-yamīnā,” what is “al-yamīnā”?
• What is “mā” in “wa-mā sharru l-thalāthah … biṣāḥibiki”?
• What is meant by “sharr al-thalāthah”?
• Which place is named in verse 7?
• What classical construction may explain the genitive “wa-kaʾsin”?
• What is the singular of “al-manāyā”?
• What does “sawfa” convey in verse 8?
• What is the subject of “tudrikunā l-manāyā”?
• How does the mention of death change the poem?
• What is the form of “qifī”?
• Who is addressed as “ẓaʿīn”?
• What does “nukhbirki … wa-tukhbirīnā” express?
• What does “ṣarman” mean in the question?
• What does the question formed by “hal … am” contrast?
• What is the context of “yawm karīhah”?
• What does “aqarra … l-ʿuyūnā” mean idiomatically?