seyyed Ahmad Reza Qaemmaqami
Abstract
Navigation is essentially an international art; therefore, its vocabulary may also travel from one side of the world to the other by the seamen. Some nautical words and terms used by ...
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Navigation is essentially an international art; therefore, its vocabulary may also travel from one side of the world to the other by the seamen. Some nautical words and terms used by Muslim sailors, which have been the subject of research, are Persian or Iranian. Hence, this particular branch is important in Persian and Iranian lexical and linguistic studies as well. Some of these words, according to previous studies, are borrowed from Indian languages, and their transfer is the result of the interactions of the Persians and Arabs with India. It is not always easy to determine whether these words entered into Arabic directly or through Iranian languages. In the absence of documents, sometimes the phonetic indications could help. This paper studies the origins and meanings of some of these words and termes afresh. It tries, while correcting some of the previous scholars’ opinions, provide a more accurate lexical description on the names of some ships, boats, and sailing words related to Iran’s southern seas.
