نشریه پژوهش های زبانی - ادبی قفقاز و کاسپین
سال دوم شماره 2 (پیاپی 6، بهار و تابستان 1400)

In this article, the author discusses the origin of the Qur'anic word Furāt (Euphrates) and its transformation in some texts. In the author's opinion, the word fālād/fālāδ is another form of the word Furāt, derived from the infinitive form fārīdan. Although this word is very rarely used in Persian texts, it is still alive in the Persian language of Tajikistan and Afghanistan.

The article presents a critical analysis of the etymologies suggested hitherto for explaining the origin of the Iranian place-names Abhar and Ardabēl.

Iranian languages and dialects are facing many challenges these days and therefore, they have lost some of their ancient characteristics. Gīlakī is one of the North-Western Iranian languages that has a variety of dialects. Langarūdī is one of the Gīlakī dialects that is spoken in the city of Langarūd and its outlaying regions. This dialect is one of the Eastern dialects of Gīlakī and is different from Western and Central Gīlakī. This article aims to investigate the general aspects of Langarūdī dialect. General phonetic issues (number of vowels, consonants, and syllables), morphology (internal structure of nouns and verbs and the structural features of verbal forms, including constructions such as past perfect (impossible) tense, and the simple past tense), and general syntactic and lexical aspects of this Langarūdī are discussed in this article. The influence of Persian on Langarūdī along with the influence of the Arabic language on its vocabulary are evident in lexicon and semantics of this dialect.

Known exclusively from historical documents of the 14th-15th centuries, Gorgāni is largely overlooked in Iranian dialectology. This paper is organized in three parts: (I) grammar, (II) typology, (III) diachrony. The right-branching noun phrase places Gorgāni within the Caspian-Alborz Sprachbund. Such continuum does not hold in other typological features when Gorgāni is compared areally with Caspian and Komisenian. Morphological idiosyncrasies include: possessor with oblique marker -n; imperfective with hī-; future with kām-; irrealis with -nd-; 3sg pronoun . These characteristics substantiate that Gorgāni belongs to none of the recognized West Iranic language groups. Gorgāni shows exclusive isoglosses with its historical neighbor Balochi. Genealogically, Gorgāni displays a strong Northwest Iranian pedigree, as expected of a language that could once be in contact with Parthian.

This article refutes the pervasive hypothesis that the collocation Paroyr Skayordi represents the name of a Scyth (Assyrian Partatua, Greek Προτοθύης) who is supposedly ‘son (ordi) of a Saka (skay)’, whereby skay ‘giant’ is taken from Saka- ‘Scyth’.

Статья посвящена анализу семантического поля бурхан, загадочного термина, обозначающего различные культовые и культурные явления среди тюркоязычных сообществ юго-восточного Каспия, а также Сибири и Алтая.