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On Mutual Influence of Arabic and Persian Tajik Lexicographies

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Ghiyasov Nurullo Ismatovich

Abstract

The issues dwelling on the problem of mutual influence of Persian-Tajik and Arabic lexicographies are considered in the Tajik lexicography for the first time; the author studies three main methods of compiling Arabic interpreting dictionaries, he researches place, role and exertion of their authors both in Arabic and Tajik-Persian lexicographies.

It is shown that those were the representatives of Iran who stood at the very beginning of formation and development of Arabic lexicography, through the prism of their own works they brought the best achievements of Persian-Tajik linguistics with its Indian and Greek elements into the Arabic one. They accepted the Arabic language not only as that one of Islam and Koran, but as the language of science, culture and art either, as Arabic, at that period of progresses in Moslemic countries had played the same role as was performed later by Latin in Europe. An urgency of compiling Arabic interpreting dictionaries was perceived much more acuter than Persian ones. Proceeding from comprehension of it, Persian-Tajik scholars from different areas of Maverannakhr and Khorasan started to solve theoretical and practical problems of Arabic lexicography; scientists of Iranian origin in Kufa and Basra joined their colleagues.

The author expounds the opinion that the inception of the history of the Persian-Tajik lexicography is not the period when the first interpreting dictionaries were compiled, here refer those ones belonging to Abu Hafs Sughdian, Katron Tebrezi, Asadi Tusi et alia; the start is the date of “Kitab al-Ayn” compilation carried out by Persian Khalil ibn Ahmad Farohidi; as for the traditions formed in Arabic lexicography in the span of the VII-th - the XIII cc., the author suggests that they should be considered as common for both lexicographies.

Keywords

Arabic lexicography, Persian-Tajik lexicography, “Sikhakh al-Arabiya” by Djavhari, “Sikhakh al-Furs” by Nahchivani, Iranian-Arabic language contacts, history of Arabic and Persian-Tajik lexicographies, mutual influence of Arabic and Iranian linguistics

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