Antro Onomastic in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh (based on the names associated with water)

Document Type : Scientific

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1 - Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan. Iran.

2 - Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan. Iran.

10.22103/jis.2025.23634.2679

Abstract

Antro onomastic is a subset of linguistics that is closely related to semantics and can be studied with different approaches. One of the most important of these approaches is socio-cognitive linguistics, which includes the basic concepts of language usage, intra-linguistic and inter-linguistic diversity, categorization, cultural patterns and social meanings, and the interaction of language, culture, and ideology. are. Another method of nomenclature is the historical method, in which names of any type and historical period are examined. What causes the importance of names is the cultural, social, political, historical, linguistic, documentary, archeology and other functions. In this research, those names that are connected with "water" in various mythological, heroic and historical parts of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh have been investigated by documentary-library method. The result of the work shows that each of these names are used for a specific sign in relation to the accepted totem, religion and cult (worship) due to contradiction or compatibility. On the other hand, some of these names are variations of other names and have nothing to do with water. Sometimes, the existence of the name of water in a specific name is linked to the content of a story and is a product of a later era and was created to adapt the myth to the reality in a story process.
Keywords: Antro Onomastic, Shahnameh Ferdowsi, persons, totem, water

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