نامي نومة العوافي
نامي نومة العوافي
Sleep, Sleep Well
Lullaby
Lullaby
(Arabic)
(English)
نامي نومة العوافي
نوم الغزیل بأطرافي
أمونة ماترید النوم دوم
ترید لبس العافیه و الهدوم
Sleep, sleep well,
Like the sleep of a fawn near me
Amine* never likes to sleep
She wants to wear clothes and be well.
Notes
*Put in a girl's name
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Transliteration
Name noumat al-awafi
Noum al-ghazeel bat'rafi
Amounah ma-treed al-noum doum
Treed lebs al-afiyah wa al-hodoum
Thanks and Acknowledgements
This song was compiled by Siham Sajirati who collected folkloric children songs of Arabs of Iran and published them in a book in 1999 called "Sajirati, Siham" (Helle Ya Rommane. Ahwaz: Khaledin publication house).
Many thanks to Fatima Baji for contributing, transliterating and translating this song.
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