دلا | Heart! O Heart! (vocative with stress on the first syllable) |
دیدی | you saw; you did see, did you see? See! |
خورشید | the Sun |
از شب سرد | from cold night |
چو آتش | like fire |
سر ز خاکستر برآورد = سر از خاکستر برآورد | it brought its head up from ash(es) |
ز = از | from (ze is the poetic form of az) |
چو = چون | like (classical pronunciation: chu, chun; modern pronunciation cho, chon) |
گل | rose. The words "hrodh" (Greek), "rosa" (Latin), "ward" (Arabic), "gol" (Persian), "wrd" Sogdian, are all cognates of *ward meaning "to grow". In modern Persian, gol means "flower". |
گلرنگ = گلگون | rose-colored |
دشت | field, plain |
شقایق | poppy (flower) |
گشت ازین خون = از این خون گشت | became ... from this blood |
گشتن = شدن | to become (literary usage) |
دلا دیدی که خورشید ... سر ... برآورد | Did you see that the sun raised its head... |
جهان دشت شقایق گشت | the world became a field of poppies |
نگر تا | (You) see! Look how before (it happened that...) |
شب خونین = شب خونی | bloody night |
این شب خونین سحر کرد | this bloody night made morning, the night was spent |
سحر | dawn, morning |
تا این شب خونین سحر کرد | before this bloody night made morning |
چه خنجرها که | what daggers that |
خنجر | dagger |
خنجرها ... از دل‌ها گذر کرد | daggers passed through hearts (kard is singular because khanjer-hā is an inanimate plural) |
گذر کرد | it/they passed (through) |
زهر = از هر | from each, from every |
خون دلی | blood of heart, an instance of blood of heart (indefinite) |
سروی | a cypress tree (indefinite) |
سرو | Cypress tree (pronunciation: sarv) |
قدافراشت | it raised its stature |
قد | stature (the Cypress symbolizes high stature) |
افراشتن | to raise |
تذرو = قرقاول | pheasant |
تذروی | a pheasant |
نغمه | melody |
برداشتن | to bring out, to take out |
نغمه برداشت | it brought out a melody |
صدای خون | sound of blood |
آواز | voice, tune, melody, call |
یادگار | memory, memento, memorial, commemoration |
این یادگار خون سرواست = این یادگار خون سرو است | it is a memento of blood of Cypress |
صدا | sound, voice, noise |