ALAP BEET (AT-WAA-TAAN)
ABC (Our Letters)
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**Chorus Beginning**
ALAP
ATOR YI-MA-NEE,
Assyria is our mother.
BEET
BET NAH-RAIN AA-TRA-NEE.
Mesopotamia is our country.
KHA LEE-SHAA-NA IK-LA-NEE.
we have one language
ANEH-NA AT-WAA-TA-NEE.
these are our
letters.
**Chorus Ending**
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ALAP
AALAA-HAA [1], AA-TA [2].
God [1], flag[2].
BEET
BAA-BAA [3], BROO-NAA [4], BRAA-TAA [5].
father [3], son [4], daughter [5].
GAMAL
GAA-NAA-NAA [6], GEN-TAA [7].
gardener [6] , garden [7].
DALAT
DOON-YEH [8], DAA-WIL-TAA [9].
world [8], wealth [9].
HEH
HEE-WEE [10], HE-MEN-TA [11].
hope [10], belief [11].
WAW
WUL-YAA [12], WUL-YOO-TAA [13].
fit/state of being proper[12], fitness [13].
ZAIN
ZEE-WAA-NAA [14], ZRROO-TAA [15].
weed [14], plant (the verb) [15].
KHET
KHOO-BAA [16], KHEE-RROO-TAA [17].
love [16], freedom[17].
TDETH
TDE-RREH
[18], TDOO-RRA-NEH
[19].
birds [18], mountains [19].
YOOD
YOOL-PAA-NAA [20], YOOT-RAA-NEH [21].
student / learned one[20], one with a better future [21].
KAP
KAA-MOT-REH [22], KERR-MAA-NEH [23].
pears (the fruit) [22], orchards [23].
LAMMAD
LAAZ-EW, LEE-SHAA-NEH [24].
dialect / languages [24].
MEEM
MAA-DRAASH-TAA [25], MAL-PAA-NEH [26].
school [25], teachers / tutors [26].
NOON
NURR-GEES [27], NEE-SAA-NEH [28].
nardissus/daffodil flower [27], springs (the season)[28].
SIMKAT
SEE-MEH-LEH, SAAH-DEH [29].
Simele(the town by Mosul and Dohuk, Iraq where Assyrians were massacred
in 1933), martyr [29].
EI
AAY-WAA-TEH [30], AAI-NAA-NEH [31].
clouds [30], clouds [31] (two synonymous words)
PEH
PIQ-KH [32], PAA-WAA-NEH [33]
blossum/bloom[32], branches [33].
SADEH
SO-MAA [34], SAAL-YAA-NEH [35].
fasting [34], prayers[35].
QOP
QAA-ROO-YAA [34], QU-NAA-NEH [37].
rooster [36], horns [37].
RESH
RROOM-TAA [38], RRE-KHAA-NEH [39].
hill [38], possessed with odor [39].
SHEEN
SHE-REH [40], SHA-MAA-NEH [41].
poems [40], listeners [41].
TAW
TUSH-EE-TAA [42], TEN-YAA-NEH [43].
history[42], speakers [43].
TE-MOON HAA-WAKH AKH ZOW-EH [44],
let us be like the vowels[44] .
GOO [45] AT-WAA-TAAN [46] SHITD-RAA-NEH [47].
in[45] -our letters-[46] beautiful [47] (in our beautiful letters)
The chorus has the ending "EE" is used only for this song to
make it musical and rhyme
BUY-DUKH = flag (Turkish). AA-TAA = flag (Aramaic)
DOON-YEH = world (arabic roots). TE-VIL = Aramaic)
YIMAA is used metaphorically in Assyrian as "our country" especially
because it is illegal to sing about your country.
ATWATEH=letters, ATOOTA=letter, ZOWEH=vowels
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PERFORMED BY: JULIANA JENDO
LYRICS BY: JOHN HOMEH
MUSIC BY: JOESEPH MALKIE
ALBUM: THE FLOWERS OF ASSYRIA