WordBasic referenceRhetorical role
قَفِيزGrain measureAgricultural produce
دِرْهَمCoin or monetary valueCash income
قُرًى بِالْعِرَاقِVillages in IraqBenchmark of ordinary productivity
The concern is not the technical size of a measure or a financial rule. The poet reverses the favorable connotation of yield to describe war’s multiplied harms. More “production” here means more calamities.
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Zuhayr ibn Abī Sulmā: War, the Grinding Mill, and the She-Camel Metaphors (Verses 28–32)
WordBasic referenceRhetorical role
قَفِيزGrain measureAgricultural produce
دِرْهَمCoin or monetary valueCash income
قُرًى بِالْعِرَاقِVillages in IraqBenchmark of ordinary productivity
The concern is not the technical size of a measure or a financial rule. The poet reverses the favorable connotation of yield to describe war’s multiplied harms. More “production” here means more calamities.