A COMPARISON BETWEEN CONCEPTS OF WORDS IN THE TRADITIONAL AND MODERN ERA

Transmutation of terms and the permutaion of their concepts which bring about the transformation (and not evolution or conscious transformation) of culture, is one of the issues observed abundantly in the interactions with other cultures and ideologies, especially in translations, exclusively in contemporary era. This trend is one of the factors contributing to the crisis of the cultural identity of societies.In order to perform the duty of promoting the Iranian culture, the following article endeavors to briefly compare the original Persian meanings of terms and foreign equivalents. Hoping that it will be an introduction for future investigations and researches.