Labīd ibn Rabīʿah: The Bereaved Wild Cow, Rain and the Hunting Dogs (Verses 36–53)

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• What is the condition of a masbūʿah?
• What is al-ṣiwār?
• Who is the farīr in verse 37?
• What does bughām express?
• What does shalw mean?
• What does lā yumannu ṭaʿāmuhā mean?
• What is the basic sense of ghirrah?
• Which figure is used in death’s arrows never miss?
• What kind of rain is dīmah?
• What does kafara al-nujūma ghamāmuhā mean?
• What does mutanabbidhan describe about the tree?
• What is the cow’s brightness compared with in verse 43?
• What change does inḥasara al-ẓalām indicate?
• What does al-tharā refer to?
• How much time is sabʿan tuʾāman?
• What is the difference between irḍāʿ and fiṭām?
• What does tawajjasat convey?
• What does al-anīs refer to here?
• Which words clarify kilā al-farjayn?
• When do the hunters release the dogs?
• What are described as ghuḍfan dawājin?
• What is the comparison in madriyyatun ka-samharīyyah?
• What is the grammatical structure of in lam tadhud?
• What does al-ḥimām mean in this verse?
• Who are Kasāb and Sukhām?
• What does ḍurrijat bi-dam mean?
• What is al-sarāb in verse 53?
• What figure appears in ardiyat al-sarāb?
• What is the overarching function of the wild-cow episode?
• What subject begins after this animal narrative?