«كَلِفْتُ مُذْ مِيطَتْ عَنِّي التَّمَائِمُ وَنِيطَتْ بِيَ الْعَمَائِمُ»
I have been captivated by it since the childhood amulets were removed from me and turbans were placed upon me.
Mīṭat / nīṭat speak of removing and fastening; tamāʾim / ʿamāʾim function as age-markers. Instead of recording years, the narrator dates a desire by the movement from childhood amulets to the adult turban.
Both verbs are passive: the focus lies on what happened to the objects, not on who removed or fastened them. The patterned sounds turn an ordinary chronology into a memorable cultural image.
Application: “the amulets were removed” preserves the passive; “I removed the amulets” invents a different agent.