en_tn_condensed/sng/05/14.md

# General Information:

The young woman continues to describe the man.

# His arms are rounded gold set with jewels

"His arms are rods of gold that have jewels all over them." The woman uses this image to say that his arms are beautiful and precious. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

# his abdomen is ivory covered with sapphires

"his belly is smooth ivory that has sapphires all over it." The woman uses this image to say that his belly is beautiful and precious. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

# ivory

the white tusk or tooth of an animal that is similar to bone. People use ivory to make smooth and shiny pieces of art.

# sapphires

valuable stones that are either 1) blue or 2) clear and either blue or golden
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initial v6 rc conversion 2017-06-21 20:50:04 +00:00			`The young woman continues to describe the man.`
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initial v6 rc conversion 2017-06-21 20:50:04 +00:00			`# His arms are rounded gold set with jewels`
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Update 'sng/05/14.md' I removed this from comment about the arms: The first readers would have understood this as a metaphor for the male body part ([Song of Songs 5:3](./03.md)), but this would be difficult to bring out in translation. NICOT suggests it for the second line of the verse about his ivory stomach. "When one thinks of ivory, one thinks of a tusk of ivory, an object that could easily have erotic connotations." But because the author was "being more adventurous than usual in [his] translation and interpretation of the second part of the verse," I don't think it needs to be mentioned here. For the arms, I changed "cylinders" to "rods" because things called "cylinders" are usually hollow. 2019-01-09 16:09:12 +00:00			`"His arms are rods of gold that have jewels all over them." The woman uses this image to say that his arms are beautiful and precious. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])`
initial v6 rc conversion 2017-06-21 20:50:04 +00:00
			`# his abdomen is ivory covered with sapphires`
added v2 tn converted to an rc 2017-06-21 20:47:54 +00:00
			`"his belly is smooth ivory that has sapphires all over it." The woman uses this image to say that his belly is beautiful and precious. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])`

initial v6 rc conversion 2017-06-21 20:50:04 +00:00			`# ivory`
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			`the white tusk or tooth of an animal that is similar to bone. People use ivory to make smooth and shiny pieces of art.`

initial v6 rc conversion 2017-06-21 20:50:04 +00:00			`# sapphires`
added v2 tn converted to an rc 2017-06-21 20:47:54 +00:00
added tw to notes 2017-06-24 00:15:21 +00:00			`valuable stones that are either 1) blue or 2) clear and either blue or golden`