הַאגְּדָה עוֹוָאִידְנָא | هاگدة عوّدنا | Agda ŋowaidna (Such is our custom), a Moroccan Jewish song for the conclusion of Ḥanukkah
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open_content_license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Date: 2022-11-23
Last Updated: 2025-02-18
Categories: Ḥanukkah
Tags: Judeo-Arabic, Light, Meknes, Morocco, זמירות zemirot
Excerpt: This is a transcription and translation of the song הַאגְּדָה עוֹוָאִידְנָא (Agda Ŋowaidna) as presented on Twitter, 6 December 2021 by Josh Calvo (@joshuac220), writing "In Meknes, Morocco, on the day after Ḥanukkah (which is today, alas) the Jewish community would come together to a light a bonfire from the leftover wax and oil of the holiday, singing this song (in Arabic) while watching the blaze." . . .
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הַאגְּדָה עוֹוָאִידְנָא
נְחְרְקוֹ פְתַאִילְנָא
וּנְטְלְבוֹ מְן מוּלָאנָא
לְעָאם לְמָאזֵי יִחְיִינָא
וּנְרְזְעוּ לְאַרְדְנָא
וּלְאַרְד זְדוּדְנָא
יְרוּשָׁלַיִם לְעְזִיזָא עְלִינָא
וּלְתּוֹרָה וּלְמִצְוֺת יִזְכִּינָא
וּזְכוּת אדָּאווּ דְלְקְנִידְלָת דִי סְעְלָנָא
יִדַוּוִי עֵינָנָא
וּעִינִין אוּלָדְנָא
בְּדָּאווּ דלְתּוֹרָה דִי הִייָא חְיָאתְנָא
וּטוּלָאן עְמְרְנָא
וּבֵעהּ נְפְנִיוּ עִידְיָינָא׃
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Such is our custom
to burn our wicks
and ask of our Gd
may He preserve us for another year
and return us to our Land
Land of our forefathers
and to our beloved Jerusalem.
May we merit Torah and mitsvot (…)
in the merit of the light of the Menorah
which shines in our eyes
and in the eyes of our children
and which is the light of the Torah, our life
and the length of our days
and in whose fire we burn our enemies.
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هاگدة عوّدنا.
نحرقو فتايلنا.
ونطلبو من مولانا.
لعام لمازي يحينا.
ونرزعو لأرضنا.
ولأرض زدودنا.
يروشليم لعريزة علينا.
ولتورة ولمصوت يزكينا.
وزكوت الضوّ دلقنديلت دي سعلنا.
يضوّي عيننا…
وعينين أولادنا.
بضوّ دلتورة دي هي حياتنا.
وطولا عمرنا. وبها نفنيو عيديانا.
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This is a transcription and translation of the song הַאגְּדָה עוֹוָאִידְנָא (Agda Ŋowaidna) as presented on Twitter, 6 December 2021 by Dr. Joshua Calvo (@joshuac220), writing “In Meknes, Morocco, on the day after Ḥanukkah (which is today, alas) the Jewish community would come together to a light a bonfire from the leftover wax and oil of the holiday, singing this song (in Arabic) while watching the blaze.”
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Agda Ngowaidna
Contributor: Josh Calvo
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Name: Josh Calvo
Bio: Joshua Calvo’s research and teaching interests include Arabic and Hebrew language and literature, modern and classical; Sephardic and Arab Jewish history and culture; Ladino and Judeo-Arabic; the experimental novel; literary translation; and creative writing. In 2019–20 he held a fellowship position at the Center for Arabic Study Abroad, American University of Cairo. He is the author of “The Ruins,” in Youssef Rakha’s sultanseal.com, a repository of essays, fiction, poetry, translations, reviews, and photography (2019, with additional essays forthcoming). Publications also include translations of Seliman Menahem Mani’s “The Valley of Demons” (1884) in Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 7, 1880-1918, forthcoming; four prose poems by Mahmoud Darwish for A Blade of Grass: New Palestinian Poetry (Smokestack Books, 2017). In addition to Hebrew and Arabic (near fluent), his languages include French, Spanish, Ladino, Ugaritic, Finnish (reading), and elementary Japanese, Quechua, and Hungarian.
Website: https://www.bard.edu/faculty/details/?id=4485
Profile Link: https://opensiddur.org/profile/josh-calvo
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