Zazaca Öğren

The Miller and the Fox

A tale in which a fox is caught stealing the miller's flour and tries to save his life by promising to marry the miller to the daughter of the Pasha of Egypt. The story turns on trickery, invented identity, and negotiation.

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The Miller and the Fox

Research note

The bracketed passage on MF03 was left untranslated by Lerch; the published meaning here is inferred from the Zaza text analysis and narrative context.

Places mentioned

Russian original edition

Lerch, Peter Ivanovich. Izsledovaniia ob iranskikh kurdakh i ikh predkakh, severnykh khaldeiakh. Vol. 1. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1856. Mährchen von dem Müller und Fuchs, printed pp. 119-123.

Pages: Russian RGO viewer images 133-137; printed pp. 119-123.

Primary scan witness for Lerch's Zazaki transcription and Russian free translation.

German edition / reprint scan

Lerch, Peter. Forschungen über die Kurden und die iranischen Nordchaldäer. Abth. 1. St. Petersburg: Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1857. Story 'Mährchen von dem Müller und Fuchs'.

Pages: Internet Archive scan pages around n126-n130; printed pp. 83-87.

Used for the German free translation and as a second scan witness for the Zazaki transcription.

Bingöl University thesis transcription

Aslanoğulları, Mehmet. Lerch'in Zazaki Derlemelerinin Çevrimyazımı ve Türlerine Göre Sözcüklerin Tahlili. Master's thesis, Bingöl Üniversitesi, 2014.

Pages: PDF pp. 67-70; heading 'Çemçequ Paşa'.

Secondary transcription witness used during alignment and review. The transcription text is cited here but is not reproduced in the Interlinear view.