Kurdish baÅ¾n, Persian baÅ¡n and Other Iranian Cognates

Ela Filippone

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Kurdish baÅ¾n, Persian baÅ¡n and Other Iranian Cognates

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Pages:: 325â350

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004302068_023

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The paper deals with the lexical set of cognate words to which Kurdish baÅ¾n, Persian baÅ¡n (generally recorded as âstatureâ) belong. These words are attested in Middle and Modern Western Iranian and are dialectologically connoted, being nowadays mostly found in Central dialects, Kurdish, Gorani and Zazaki areas. By reviewing lexicographical and textual sources, the author picks out the semantic peculiarities of the baÅ¡n-forms. Starting from the notion of HEIGHT and through metaphorical associations and shift of reference, baÅ¡n-forms have acquired different senses mostly involving the book-body domain (âbodyâ, âwaistâ etc.) but with extensions to other domains. They have also undergone grammaticalization processes. As far as Western Middle Iranian is concerned, all the occurrences of Pahlavi baÅ¡n, Manichaean Parthian baÅ¡nÄn and Middle Persian baÅ¡nÄy have been listed and discussed.

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Studies on Iran and The Caucasus

In Honour of Garnik Asatrian

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