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Haft-Xwân or Haft-Xân
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Mohammad Hasan Jalalian Chaleshtari    |
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Abstract: (1502 Views) |
Haft-Xwân/Xâns of Rostam and Esfandiyâr are among the parts of Shahnameh, which have received a lot of public and special attention in the long history after the composition of this work. Contrary to the traditional spelling used for this series of battles of warriors in most manuscripts of the Shahnameh and most Persian works, some contemporary researchers with this argument that in these battles, the warrior goes through seven stages, believe that the correct form of this name should be without waw and it should be written in the form of Haft-Xân. Some have also considered the second part of this word (= Xwân) to be a table with this pretext that Esfandiyâr sits on feasts after every battle. This last opinion has been rightly criticized and rejected, but the first one has been approved by all the researchers. In this article, after measuring the validity of the evidence of this opinion and with the approach of historical linguistics, a different opinion, but compatible with the internal content of this series of battles, will be presented. In this interpretation, considering Haft-Xwân form to be original and presenting a new derivation for Xwân, the meaning of “battle and struggle” has been proposed for this word.
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| Keywords: Shahnameh, Haft-Xwân/Xân, Xwân, Xân, Historical Linguistics. |
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Type of Study: Research |
Subject:
سایر
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