«قَالُوا اقْتَرِحْ شَيْئًا نَجِدْ لَكَ طَبْخَهُ فَقُلْتُ اطْبُخُوا لِي جُبَّةً وَقَمِيصَا»
“They said, ‘Name something and we will cook it for you.’ I said, ‘Cook me a cloak and a shirt.’”
A cloak and shirt are not literally cooked; they are made or sewn. The second use of uṭbukhū (“cook”) is selected to correspond to ṭabkhahu in the first line.
The intended sense is preparation, expressed through the word for cooking to produce a witty harmony between the two lines.
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ʿIlm al-Badīʿ: Semantic Embellishments, Part I
«قَالُوا اقْتَرِحْ شَيْئًا نَجِدْ لَكَ طَبْخَهُ فَقُلْتُ اطْبُخُوا لِي جُبَّةً وَقَمِيصَا»
“They said, ‘Name something and we will cook it for you.’ I said, ‘Cook me a cloak and a shirt.’”
A cloak and shirt are not literally cooked; they are made or sewn. The second use of uṭbukhū (“cook”) is selected to correspond to ṭabkhahu in the first line.
The intended sense is preparation, expressed through the word for cooking to produce a witty harmony between the two lines.