Am I dead?

kha-ga khina medre malla Nasraden berrekhshele ka-bakhtu marele kat en-ana metli, paghri mu pt-ave? mara mu pt-ave paghrukh? akhchi t-ave kayra hech-mendi le-yattet biyyu. t-avet kayra akh-gdila.

Again, mullah Nasradin goes and says to his wife ‘If I die, what would happen to my body?’ She says ‘What would happen to your body? It would only be cold. You will know nothing about it. You will be cold like ice.’

malla Nasraden berrekhshele al-mesha kese maya ka-setva talga. pi-palget urkha jammuyel kese bekhzayele ina aha idatu kayre vilun gdila. khabulele. merre aha bas-ana dun-myata kat-bakhti merra paghra k-ave kayra. ana dun-myata.

Mullah Nasradin goes to the forest to fetch wood for the winter, (in) the snow. In the middle of the way as he gathers wood he sees that his hands have become cold (as) ice. He becomes cold. He said ‘Oh, but I am dying, because my wife said a body is cold (when dead). I am dying.’

nikha rekhle al-talga. rekhle al-talga m-a-yba khina dive tilun. tilun khmaru kulle vedlun ketti kette, shurilun bikhalu. malla Nasraden merre khushun vimun khlapet da gani kat-leven khaya. en-avenva khaya beddayen mu-pt-odenva b-rishokhun-khina.

Slowly he lay down on the snow. He lay down on the snow and from the other side wolves came. They came and tore his donkey to pieces, and began to eat it. Mullah Nasradin said ‘Go and be the substitutes of this soul of mine because I am not alive. If I were alive, I know what I would do to you.’