A Short Story in Baluchi Language from the Hosey-e Kord-e Šabestarī Cycle

Subject Areas : Linguistics,dialectology,folklore,literature

vahe Boyajian ¹ (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia)

Received: 2023-09-27 Accepted : 2023-11-18 Published : 2023-08-23

Keywords: Baluchi Language, Hoseyn-e Kord, Kurdish Origins, Baluchi Folklore, Sarāwānī Dialect,

Abstract :

The paper presents a small text in the Sarāwānī dialect of Baluchi about the famous hero Hoseyn-e Kord. The Baluchi story is a well-known episode from the cycle of Hoseyn-e Kord-e Šabestarī, where the hero shows his supernatural strength and gains a high social status. At the same time, for the Kord tribe in Iranian Baluchistan, Hoseyn-e Kord is not only a folkloric personage, but features as an eponym, the legendary forefather of the tribesman.The paper presents a small text in the Sarāwānī dialect of Baluchi about the famous hero Hoseyn-e Kord. The Baluchi story is a well-known episode from the cycle of Hoseyn-e Kord-e Šabestarī, where the hero shows his supernatural strength and gains a high social status. At the same time, for the Kord tribe in Iranian Baluchistan, Hoseyn-e Kord is not only a folkloric personage, but features as an eponym, the legendary forefather of the tribesman.