A Tasuγelt sγur
Panchatantra story
The Foolish Lion and the clever rabbit
Once upon a time there lived a ferocious lion in the
forest. It was a greedy lion and started killing animals in
the forest indiscriminately. Seeing this, the animals
gathered and decided to approach the lion with the offer
of one animal of each species volunteering itself to be
eaten by the lion everyday. So every day it was the turn
of one of the animals and in the end came the rabbits'
turn. The rabbits chose an old rabbit among them. The
rabbit was wise and old. It took its own sweet time to go
to the Lion. The Lion was getting impatient on not
seeing any animal come by and swore to kill all animals
the next day.
The rabbit then strode along to the Lion by sunset. The
Lion was angry at him. But the wise rabbit was calm and
slowly told the Lion that it was not his fault. He told the
Lion that a group of rabbits were coming to him for the
day when on the way, an angry Lion attacked them all
and ate all rabbits but himself. Somehow he escaped to
reach safely, the rabbit said. He said that the other Lion
was challenging the supremacy of his Lordship the Lion.
The Lion was naturally very enraged and asked to be
taken to the location of the other Lion.
The wise rabbit agreed and led the Lion towards a deep
well filled with water. Then he showed the Lion his
reflection in the water of the well. The Lion was furious
and started growling and naturally its image in the
water, the other Lion, was also equally angry. Then the
Lion jumped into the water at the other Lion to attack it,
and so lost its life in the well. Thus the wise rabbit saved
the forest and its inhabitants from the proud Lion.
D. Messaoudi
Izem ungif ed wewtul uẓwir
Yiwen wass deg wussan, yella yiwen n yizem amaεur
yezdeγen deg teẓgi. Imi netta d azeqqaḍ, yeneqq yal
amudder ara walint wallen-is. Γef waya, nnegrawen
yimuddren, sakkin γetsen ad as-fken i yizem yal ass
yiwen seg-sen akken ad t-yečč. Akk-a ihi, yal ass d tawala
n yiwen seg yimuddren, armi d-tuweḍ twala n yiwtal.
Iwtal fernen-d yiwen yeheckren seg-sen. Awtul-a d
amγar uẓwir. Yeqqim aṭas ur yeddi γer yizem. Izem
yebda yejelli tiẓidert mi akk-n ur yeẓri kra n umudder
yussa-d γer-s. Dγa yeggul ad yenγ meṛṛa imuddren
azekka-nni.
Sakkin γer uγelluy n yiṭij, Awtul yessaker iḍarren-is
metwal Izem. Yebbeṛbeṛ-d fell-as Yizem. Maca, Awtul
amasnag ur yenẓim maḍi. Yenna-as i Yizem dakken ur d
tazgelt-is. Yenna-as dakken yiwen n wegraw n yiwtal
yetteddu-d γer-s akk-n gan yakan yimuddren niḍen,
maca deg webrid-nsen yeffeγ-d γer-sen yiwen yizem
yečča-ten akk liwa netta. Yettsemma, netta d amnaε ay
yemneε imi akk-a d-yuweḍ d amuddir. Yenna-as daγen
dakken s wayen akk-n yega yizem-nni d acqirru
ameqqran i Mass-nnes Izem weryettwarnan. Magani,
Izem yeqqber seg werrif, dγa yendeh γef Wewtul akken
ad t-yawi γer wemkan-nni.
Yeqbel Wewtul uḥric, yuwi Izem armi d yiwen n wanu
alqayan yeččuren d aman. Dγa yesken-as i Yizem
asended-is γef waman n wanu. Izem yerfa ed yebda la
yesbeṛbiṛ. Magani, tugna-is, yettsemma izem niḍen, akk-
n ay yerfa. Sakkin Izem yeneggez γer waman akken ad
yeddu γef yizem-nni, maca yezder ed yejla tameddurt-is
din. S wakk-a ay yesellek Wewtul amasnag tiẓgi ed
yimezdaγ-is seg Yizem anekfur.