«لو اختصرتم من الإحسان زرتكم / والعذب من الماء يهجر للإفراط في الخصر»
Had you moderated your generosity I would have visited; even sweet water may be avoided when its chill becomes excessive.
Ikhtaṣartum and al-khaṣr resemble each other verbally, but the former concerns curtailing and the latter coldness. The source places their relationship under quasi-derivation rather than secure shared-root derivation.
Their separate meanings must remain clear in any explanation.
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Radd al-ʿAjz ʿalā al-Ṣadr: Repetition, Paronomasia and Derivation in Prose and Poetry
«لو اختصرتم من الإحسان زرتكم / والعذب من الماء يهجر للإفراط في الخصر»
Had you moderated your generosity I would have visited; even sweet water may be avoided when its chill becomes excessive.
Ikhtaṣartum and al-khaṣr resemble each other verbally, but the former concerns curtailing and the latter coldness. The source places their relationship under quasi-derivation rather than secure shared-root derivation.
Their separate meanings must remain clear in any explanation.