New Naqqali
- Kind
- Person
- Persian
- بچهٔ لکاته
- Also called
- بچه، بچهٔ او، بچه خودش، بچه‌ام
- First appears
- P121.L06
- Lines
- 9
- GNML id
ent_wife_child
In the scenes
- Scene 42: A cool hand in the darkP119.L01–P121.L07
- Scene 51: The overturned soup; opium prescribedP148.L01–P150.L02
- Scene 52: The nurse in the courtyard; prayers against deathP151.L01–P154.L04
- Scene 53: Night window: call to prayer and drunken watchmenP155.L01–P157.L01
- Scene 71: The knife returns from the junk dealer's clothP196.L01–P197.L02
- Scene 72: 'How does a person die?'P198.L01–P198.L19
Where the text names them
کاش در همان لحظه مرده بودم. شاید آن بچه‌ای که آبستن بوده مرده است!
I wish I had died at that very moment. Perhaps that child she had been pregnant with has died!
گاهی برایم خبرچینی می‌کرد، مثلا چند روز پیش به من گفت که دخترم ـ یعنی آن لکاته ـ به ساعت خوب، پیرهن قیامت برای بچه می‌دوخته، برای بچه خودش. بعد مثل اینکه او هم می‌دانست به من دلداری داد.
Sometimes she brought me gossip; for example, a few days earlier she told me that her daughter—that harlot—was sewing a burial shirt for her own child at an auspicious hour. Then, as though she too knew, she offered me consolation.
در همین وقت صدای اذان بلند شد؛ یک اذان بی‌موقع بود؛ گویا زنی ـ شاید آن لکاته ـ مشغول زاییدن بود، سر خشت رفته بود. صدای ناله سگی از لابلای اذان صبح شنیده می‌شد.
Just then the call to prayer rose; it was a call at an unusual time; apparently a woman—perhaps that harlot—was in labor, had gone to the birthing bricks. A dog’s whining could be heard through the morning call to prayer.
من که نمی‌خوام مشغول ذمهٔ شما باشم! اما دیروز زنت لک دیده بود ... ما می‌دونستیم که بچه ...
I do not want to be indebted to you! But yesterday your wife had seen spotting ... we knew that the child ...
من خندیدم و گفتم: «لابد شکل بچه شکل پیرمرد قارییه، لابد به روی اون جنبیده!»
I laughed and said: “The child must look like the old reciter; it must have stirred in response to his face!”
نه، هرگز ممکن نبود که بچه بر روی من جنبیده باشد.
No, it was never possible that the child had stirred in response to my face.
«شاه‌جون گفت: اگه بچه‌ام نیفتاده بود همهٔ خونه مال ما می‌شد.»
“Shah-joon said: If I had not lost my child, the whole house would have become ours.”