The Dual Meaning of the Expresion "Az Bone Dandān"

Subject Areas : Persian Language and Literature

Mohammad Irani ¹ (Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Razi University of Kermanshah)

Received: 2010-04-22 Accepted : 2010-08-01 Published : 2010-08-23

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Abstract :

The ironic expression "az bone dandaan" has been written to mean "wholeheartedly and  desirous"  in  all  Persian  Dictionaries  including general and specific ones like those of idioms and expressions or the ones devoted to a particular poet's or work's terminology. In fact they have just pointed to one aspect of its meaning. Since this meaning was not in accordance with the semantic structure of some of the lines of poetry, the present author analysed a number of cases from Old Poetry and   Prose   texts.   The   outcome   shows   that   the   aforementioned expression should be regarded as one of the "Opposits" in Persian, because in the collected cases one can see that the expression means exactly something contradictory which has been ignored by lexicographers. In the opposite case the expression means: "obliged or forced to do something." This expression is an adverbial and a prepositional phrase.