«جَوِيَ الْحَشَا عَلَى الطَّوَى مُشْتَمِلِ / مَا ذَاقَ مِنْ يَوْمَانِ طَعْمَ مَأْكَلِ»
His insides ache with hunger; for two days he has not tasted food.
Ḥashā refers to the inward parts, ṭawā to hunger or going without food, and mushtamil to being wrapped in something. Hunger becomes an all-encompassing internal affliction.
The verb dhāqa (“taste”) gives the absence of food a sensory force. The expression min yawmān indicates the two-day span of his hunger.
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The Kūfan Maqāmah: Abū Zayd’s Strange Tale and the Midnight Knock
«جَوِيَ الْحَشَا عَلَى الطَّوَى مُشْتَمِلِ / مَا ذَاقَ مِنْ يَوْمَانِ طَعْمَ مَأْكَلِ»
His insides ache with hunger; for two days he has not tasted food.
Ḥashā refers to the inward parts, ṭawā to hunger or going without food, and mushtamil to being wrapped in something. Hunger becomes an all-encompassing internal affliction.
The verb dhāqa (“taste”) gives the absence of food a sensory force. The expression min yawmān indicates the two-day span of his hunger.