Lexical advantages of Ghiyas al-Din Kojoji's Divan

Since Khawaja Sheikh Kojoji cannot be counted as one of the first-rate Persian speaking poets and his collection of poetry (Divan) bears no indication of his mastery of Persian language, the use in his poetry of words with novel unheard- of meanings can be taken as pointing to his unawareness of the true meanings of such words. On the other hand, the presence in his Divan of certain less known uses or the usages that had lost currency during his time of poetry writing, his Divan is indicative of his familiarity with the poetry of his contemporary poets as well as those preceding him. Thus, an examination of the new or rare meanings of the lexicon used in his Divan, now and again sheds light on the meanings of the vocabulary used in the works of other Persian-speaking writers of poetry.
Simple and compound words specific to Kojoji’s Divan fall into three groups: first, Persian words the meaning of each of which had stopped being current prior to the 8th A.H./14 century, but Kojoji employed such items. Second, words of infrequent usage yet examples of them are employed here and there in Kojoji’s poetry. Third, Arabic words and lexical compounds, whose morphological make-up does not fit the meanings Kojoji has intended.