The Words Gōnd (testicle) and Mandīr (waiting) in the Bakhtiari Dialect

Subject Areas : Linguistics,dialectology,folklore,literature

BEHZAD MOEINI SAM ^{1 *} , sara mohammadi Avandi ²

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2 - Persian Literature Department, Humanities faculty. Azad Islamic University. Izeh Branch

Received: 2024-12-21 Accepted : 2025-01-25 Published : 2025-03-19

Keywords: “Old Iranian”, “Bakhtiari Dialect”, “Gond”, “Mandīr”, “Loanword”, “Root”,

Abstract :

With the rise of the pre-Islamic Iranian dynasties, interactions with the ancient Mesopotamian civilizations, Greece, and Rome commenced with the Medes and persisted until the conclusion of the Sassanid dynasty. Consequently, these connections brought numerous loanwords into the Old Persian language. Moreover, Ancient Iran faced numerous invasions by various tribes, resulting in the destruction of written documents. The final invasion coincided with the Arab invasion, which supplanted the Arabic language and obliterated numerous written works; only a handful of texts survived, particularly those connected to religious writings. Consequently, many words were substituted with those from the prevailing language. Nevertheless, as dialects represent their forebears, they have preserved the ancient terms. Currently, in the Lorish dialect, rather than using the Arabic term for testicle or the Persian word xāyēh, they employ the term for testicle (gōnd), and instead of waiting, they utilize the term for mandīr. The objective of this study is to explore the terms gōnd and mandīr in the Lorish dialect and to understand the structure these terms have adhered to. Based on this, the approach involves identifying the word's root and its grammatical structure, as well as the ancient linguistic framework they adhered to. Ultimately, by analyzing terms from the same Indo-European and ancient Iranian lineage, the term gōnd is more likely to have originated as a loanword from Greek in ancient Iranian languages, while the term mandīr also derives from an ancient Iranian structure

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