Final Imālah (inclination) in the Arabic Interpolated Words in Old Persian Texts
Document Type : pajoohesh
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10.22081/jap.2022.72962
Abstract
In this article, by examining the evidence of the Final Imālah (inclination) (more precisely, the simplification of the initial Arabic sequence *ayV as ē at the end of the word) from ancient Persian texts and comparing them with some historical Arabic dialects, it is shown that the final Imālah in these words are the characteristic of the Arabic dialect, other than the classical Arabic, which Western researchers have called the Arabic of the Islamic conquests. Following the research of Ahmad Al-Jallad (Al-Jallad 2017; 2020) and Marijn van Putten (2021), who have examined the Arabic dialect of the conquests of Syria and Egypt, respectively, this dialect has been called the "Iranian branch of Arabic conquests". And we have tried to determine its position from the perspective of "Final Imālah (inclination)" among historical Arabic dialects. Finally, we have shown that the Arabic dialect of the Conquests of Iran is very similar to the dialect of the Conquests of Syria and Egypt, although based on the evidence of ancient poems and Sibivayh's report on the Arabic dialects, it seems that some varieties of the Iranian branch of Conquest Arabic have had an archaic behavior and instead of the final Imālah (inclination), they have preserved the initial Arabic sequence *ayV in the form of the compound vowel "ay".
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