A feud story beginning with a man from Nyêrib killing a servant on Hyêni land, escalating into a battle between Xalef Agha and Daqma Bey, and ending through mediation by the Ziriki aghas.
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violence; death
Xalef Agha; Daqma Bey; Temir Beg; Mela Haseynê Mûğara; Wesman Agha; Mêhmêt Agha; Ziriki aghas; Bayraktar.
Hyêni/Hêni corresponds to Hani/Khini in outside sources, and Nyêrib/Nerib corresponds to Kuyular/Nerib in nineteenth-century place-name material for Hani. The army gathering in front of Temir Beg's house is important: this is most likely Timur/Temir Bey, documented as a Hani notable in 1819, as Hani emin in 1835, and exiled after defeat that same year. This points to a likely event window of 1819-1835.
The Nyêrib/Kuyular and Hyêni/Hani identifications are externally supported. Little Nyêrib probably refers to a smaller settlement in the Nêrib village cluster around Hani; Dûzê Hemyê appears to be a plain or locality in the same area. The German reader has been realigned with the Zazaki units. Xalef's separate reply about the battle date is explicit in Russian but merged into Daqma's message in the German print. The reader follows Zazaki Hyeni-ra ('from Hyeni') and metırisi ('do not be afraid') where the old prose differs. Remaining uncertainties include the mobilization address, meadows/streets, 'give soldiers' versus 'defeat without an army', the evening/morning wording, tabure besta (rendered 'cartridges' in German/Russian), and bringing/burying the dead. These unsettled readings are not secure lexical evidence.
Lerch, Peter Ivanovich. Izsledovaniia ob iranskikh kurdakh i ikh predkakh, severnykh khaldeiakh. Vol. 1. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1856. Story on the Nerib-Hyeni feud, printed pp. 108-116.
Pages: Russian RGO viewer images 122-130; printed pp. 108-116.
Primary scan witness for Lerch's Zazaki transcription and Russian free translation.
Lerch, Peter. Forschungen über die Kurden und die iranischen Nordchaldäer. Abth. 1. St. Petersburg: Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1857. Story 'Fehde zwischen Nerib und H'yeni,' pp. 71-79.
Pages: Internet Archive scan pages n114-n122; printed pp. 71-79.
Used for the German free translation and as a second scan witness for the Zazaki transcription.
Aslanoğulları, Mehmet. Lerch'in Zazaki Derlemelerinin Çevrimyazımı ve Türlerine Göre Sözcüklerin Tahlili. Master's thesis, Bingöl Üniversitesi, 2014.
Pages: PDF pp. 56-64; story heading "Qewğê Nêrib û Hêni."
Secondary transcription witness used during alignment and review. The transcription text is cited here but is not reproduced in the Interlinear view.