Labīd ibn Rabīʿah: Deserted Dwellings, Seasons, Wildlife and Traces of the Past (Verses 1–10)

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• Which Muʿallaqah in this edition belongs to Labīd?
• Which sequence best captures the first ten verses?
• What is the principal sense of ʿafat al-diyār?
• Why does al-diyār take a feminine singular verb?
• What does taʾabbada express in verse 1?
• How should Ghawl and Rijām be understood in verse 1?
• What is the principal comparison in verse 2?
• What does al-waḥiyy denote in the verse?
• What are diman in verse 3?
• What does ḥijaj mean in verse 3?
• What does ḥalāluhā wa-ḥarāmuhā refer to?
• How should marābīʿ al-nujūm be understood?
• What kind of rain is rihām?
• What is the voice of ruziqat?
• To which time of day does sāriyah relate?
• What effect is produced by mutajāwibin irzāmuhā?
• What is ayhuqān?
• What does aṭfalat signify in verse 6?
• What is the grammatical form of al-jalhatayn?
• What is al-ʿīn in verse 7?
• What are aṭlāʾihā?
• What is the effect of depicting resting mothers and young gathering into a group?
• How do the traces become visible in verse 8?
• What is the image in zuburun tujiddu mutūnahā aqlāmuhā?
• What is the syntactic role of aqlāmuhā?
• What is naʾūr in verse 9?
• What is the force of aw at the start of verse 9?
• What kind of question is wa-kayfa suʾālunā?
• What do ṣumman khawālida describe?
• How do writing, tattooing and questioning relate in verses 8–10?