Песма са Косова / A song from the province of Kosovo, southern Serbia
Мори Бојко, дилбер Бојко
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што си адет погазила?
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Што си пошла за Турчина,
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за Турчина, за ећима?
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A poor translation into English:
Mori Bojka, beautiful Bojka,
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Why did you break the tradition?
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Why did you marry a Turk,
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a Turk, a doctor?
Bojka - a female name.
Mori/more/bre - a common exclamation in Serbian and other Balkan languages. It has no real meaning, yet it means so much as an addition.
Turk - actually muslim. The aboriginal Christian Serb population in this region has been under centuries-long pressure to leave or convert to Islam, and is now struggling to merely survive. Inter-religious marriages (implying islamization) have been a taboo.
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5 окт 2024