The Dialect of Ardakul Village and Classical Persian Texts

Providing the linguistic data to compile a dictionary that includes all of the words and collocations of the Persian language has been considered by cultural organizations and research institutions and some researchers since several years ago. To continue this cultural tradition and to eliminate the existing dictionaries’ shortcomings requires a careful study of both manuscripts and printed Persian texts and collecting different dialects ofthis language. For this purpose, this paper tries to determine the identity of some rare and ambiguous words used in classical Persian texts by using the words found in the dialect of Ardakul village, Zirkuh district of Qā’en. These words are sometimes not recorded in the existing dictionaries and sometimes the forms and meanings recorded are incomplete and questionable.