The Importance of Sistani Dialect Words and Combinations in Persian Literary Texts

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Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Zabol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zabol, Iran

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Literary texts often feature words and phrases that are absent from standard dictionaries. This descriptive-analytical study examined some of these Sistani dialect terms found in literary works. These vocabulary items could be structurally categorized into two groups. The majority were used identically in both the Sistani dialect and literary contexts. However, a smaller number exhibited minor differences, such as deletions, additions, or substitutions of individual words. From another perspective, these terms were either entirely absent from dictionaries or had multiple definitions with one obsolete dictionary meaning still preserved in the Sistani dialect. In terms of part of speech, these words and phrases were classified primarily as verbs, adjectives, and nouns with verbs frequently appearing as figurative compound words. Identifying and recovering such specialized vocabulary not only enriches the lexical and semantic range of the Persian language, but can also provide key insights for interpreting the nuances and difficulties of literary texts.

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