TARAFA ['Amr ibn ul- 'Abd ul-Bakri] (6th cent.)

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TARAFA ['Amr ibn ul- 'Abd ul-Bakri] (6th cent.) , Arabian poet, who, after a wild and dissipated youth spent in Bahrein, left his native

land

LAND

after peace had been established between the tribes of Bakr and Taghlib and went with his uncle Mutalammis (also a poet) to the

court

COURT
COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the
influence
- INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)
of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

of the

king

Hira

HIRA

, 'Amr ibn Hind (died 568-9), and there became

companion

COMPANION (through the O. Fr. compaignon or compagnon, from the Late Lat. companio,—cum, with, and panis, bread,—one who shares meals with another; the word has been wrongly derived from the Late Lat. compagnus, one of the same pages or district)

to the

king

's brother. Having ridiculed the king in some verses he was sent with a

letter

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the
alphabet
- ALPHABET (see also
  WRITING
  - WRITING
  - WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)
  )
; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

to the ruler of Bahrein, and, in accordance with the instructions contained in the

letter

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the
alphabet
- ALPHABET (see also
  WRITING
  - WRITING
  - WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)
  )
; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

, was buried alive. One of hia poems is contained in the Moallakat (q.v.).
His diwan has been published in W. Ahlwardt's The Diwans of the Six

Ancient

Arabic Poets (London, 187o). Some of his poems have been translated into Latin with notes by B. Vandenhoff (Berlin, 1895). (G. W. 1'.)

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