Hi there! Need some translation help for "Uçun kuşlar"

Can somebody help me out in greek or english?

Uçun kuşlar

Asker ettiler beni kıdemli çavuş
Gölcük çöllerinde oldum bir baykuş
Anadan, babadan, yardan bir haber yokmuş
Uçun kuşlar uçun İzmir’e doğru

Güverteye çıktım, bayıldım, yattım
Komutan gelince selama kalktım
Anayı, babayı, yari sılaya attım
Uçun kuşlar uçun İzmir’e doğru

You can listen to the song here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df4ju9tQFWg

Let the birds fly

They made me a soldier, a long-term sergeant,
In the wilderness by a small lake, I became an owl,
From mother, father and my darling there is still no news,
Fly birds, fly, towards Izmir

I climbed onto the deck of the ship, I fainted, I slept
When the officer came I jumped to salute
I threw my mother, father and my darling back to their homes
Fly birds, fly, towards Izmir

Merhaba!

Anayı, babayı, yari sılaya attım

you translate it as

"I threw my mother, father and my darling back to their homes"

I don't get it. What does he mean?

Hello!

To be honest, I don't have a clue
I just translated it literally but I probably made some mistakes, I hope its not too important?

Originally Posted by aris1

Can somebody help me out in greek or english?

Uçun kuşlar

Asker ettiler beni kıdemli çavuş
Gölcük çöllerinde oldum bir baykuş
Anadan, babadan, yardan bir haber yokmuş
Uçun kuşlar uçun İzmir’e doğru

Güverteye çıktım, bayıldım, yattım
Komutan gelince selama kalktım
Anayı, babayı, yari sılaya attım
Uçun kuşlar uçun İzmir’e doğru

You can listen to the song here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df4ju9tQFWg

Originally Posted by aris1

Anayı, babayı, yari sılaya attım

you translate it as

"I threw my mother, father and my darling back to their homes"

I don't get it. What does he mean?

OK... it does not sound very poetic, but the translation is correct.

Sıla is not just home... sıla is the word which people who have to stay away from the place they consider as home use to describe the place where they would like to return to from the bottom of their heart.

Sıla is pure desire to return home and absolute home sickness.


I think, in the second verse the "singer" faints and stays on the ground ... and I suppose he dreams of his parents and his beloved one. When he is woken up he "throws them back to "sıla"" - the place where he too would like to be.

This is just the result of my imagination. But I don't know what the writer of these lines really intended to express...

Sıla is a Turkish phrase and Turks dont use "Sıla" so much

Originally Posted by ptRlix

Sıla is a Turkish phrase and Turks dont use "Sıla" so much

I heard it a lot from people who came here to İstanbul from far East Anatolia for work (mainly of Kurdish origin) and stay away from their family except few days of the year. I never heard it from people who come from western regions of Turkey. So it can be a regional thing.

Thank you very much for all your answers!

We could just suppose that, since the singer in the second verse is abruptly awaken, he "threw" his beloved ones back home and came back to reality!

Hey, just another thing I noticed:

In greek we too use the verb "bayıldım". It was probably used by the refugees that came to Greece from Asia Minor and it was integrated into Greek language. It is only used in past tense though. We say "Βayıldisa pia!" meaning "Enough! I came to burst of sorrow/boredom".

We also use "Anadan, babadan" too! Not literally, though. When someone asks a greek "Do you know p.e. *that* guy for a long time?", the answer can be "Anadan-babadan!". Not many younger Greeks know what it exactly means, but they all know that it means "I know him very well, we know each other for a long time"

It is amazing how many words and expressions we have in common!

Originally Posted by aris1

Thank you very much for all your answers!

We could just suppose that, since the singer in the second verse is abruptly awaken, he "threw" his beloved ones back home and came back to reality!

Hey, just another thing I noticed:

In greek we too use the verb "bayıldım". It was probably used by the refugees that came to Greece from Asia Minor and it was integrated into Greek language. It is only used in past tense though. We say "Βayıldisa pia!" meaning "Enough! I came to burst of sorrow/boredom".

We also use "Anadan, babadan" too! Not literally, though. When someone asks a greek "Do you know p.e. *that* guy for a long time?", the answer can be "Anadan-babadan!". Not many younger Greeks know what it exactly means, but they all know that it means "I know him very well, we know each other for a long time"

It is amazing how many words and expressions we have in common!

Interesting news, which I find surprising. I was aware of the fact that still some Turkish words are used in Greek an in the Balkan languages too. but that Turkish is also used for metaphorical expressions.. interesting.

Efharisto poli for this information :-)