Songs/Hvabbaytak bi Ssvayf by Fayruz

Some Lebanese songs have accent when composers tend to keep a certain rhyme.

Lyrics

Hvabbaytak bi Ssvayf

By: Fayruz, also (Fayrouz and Fairuz)

Lyrics by : Rahbani Brothers
Music adapted by Rahbani Brothers from the French song 'Coupable d'oublier'.

I loved you in summer

By: Fayruz

Bi iyyam lbard – w iyyan ccitii

W rrasiif bhvayra – w ccarix gharii’

Tigii hak lbint – min bayta lxatii’

W y’illa ntviriinii – w tintvor xa ttarii’

W yruhv w yinsaha w tidbal bi ccitii

In the cold days - in winter,

When the sidewalk like a lake - and the street is drowned,

That girl comes - from her old house,

He tells her to wait, and she awaits in the street

He has gone away, forgotten about her,

and she withers away - in winter.

Hvabbaytak bi ssvayf – hvabbaytak bi ccitii

Natvartak bi ssvayf – natvartak bi ccitii

W xyunak ssvayf – w xyune ccitii

I've loved you in summertime - I've loved you in winter,

I awaited you in summertime - I awaited you in winter,

Your eyes are summer - My eyes are winter,

and our date, O my love, is beyond summer and beyond winter.

Mar’it lghariibii, xitvyitne risalii

Katabha hvabiibii – bi ddamx lhvaziin

Fatahvt rrisalii – hvrufa dvayxiin

W mara’it iyyam – w gharrabitna sniin

The stranger women passed by - and gave me a letter,

my lover had written - with his sorrow tears,

I opened the letter - whose letters were lost,

and days passed, like if years have estranged us,

while letters of the letter, were eared by rain..

Lyrics (without accent)

* The song does not have a major accent except for words ending with "ii" in this song are pronounced with "e" in regular Lebanese conversation:

ccitii is normally pronounced ccite, Tigii - tige, ntviriinii - ntviriine, hvabiibii - hvabiibe, lghariibii - lghariibe, and risalii - risele