Entehay-e ghayat in the Meaning of Prepositions in Arabic and Persian Languages

Due to the importance of comparative research on languages and its important role in discovering the common aspects of different languages, this survey, drawing on the results of the studies done by the grammarians and lexicographers of Arabic and Persian languages, adopts an analytic-comparative approach to studying entehay-e ghayat, as the one of the most significant concepts shared by Arabic and Persian prepositions. In so doing, this survey identifies the words used to express this concept and the way these words are used in Persian and Arabic languages. This helps to determine the similarities and the differences between the two languages in this respect. The most important finding of this research is that there is not a one-to-one correspondence between Arabic and Persian prepositions while expressing a certain concept. That is, sometimes one preposition in one language is equal to two different prepositions in the other. This issue is particularly important when we are concerned with translating from Arabic to Persian or vice versa.