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Title
Hikāyat "al-Raǧul wa-al-ǧāriyya al-ʻāqila"
حكاية الرجل والجارية العاقلة
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A story consisting of an exchange of questions and answers between a man and a clever girl possibly his daughter. The man suggests to marry her off to men from different tribes, but she turns down each proposal with a clever analogy about the characteristics of each tribe.
The text contains Oromo and Amharic terms e.g. plant names.
Some of the tribal names mentioned in the text can be found in person entries in the database such as Lālū, Dikū, Kākū and Billū