RAZ WATER OR ZAR WATER: ON THE RESOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OBSERVED IN A DISTICH IN FIRDAUSI’S THE SHAHNAMA

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AKBARI MANOOCHEHR; MOJAVEZI MOHAMMAD

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Journal: PERSIAN LITERATURE (FACULTY OF LETTERS AND HUMANITIES) Year:2009 | Volume:1 | Issue:1 Page(s): 1-20

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RAZ WATER OR ZAR WATER: ON THE RESOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OBSERVED IN A DISTICH IN FIRDAUSI’S THE SHAHNAMA

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AKBARI MANOOCHEHR | MOJAVEZI MOHAMMAD | Issue Writer Certificate

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RAZ WATER (WINE)Q3

TAMARISK (GAZ)Q3

SIMORGH (PHOENIX)Q2

ZAREHQ3

HAMOUNQ2

Abstract

The compound “Raz Water” (or Wine or Vine Juice) is one of the most controversial cases in Shahnama that has been used in the following distich: String the bow and this arrow of tamarisk (gaz) That has been brazened in Raz Water Ever since the seventh century, critics and interpreters of The Shahnama have taken the compound to signify wine and have emphasized its toxic, metaphoric, and symbolic nature to make it congruent with the overall atmosphere of the epic. The authors in this paper, after evaluating and criticizing the views and criticisms proposed by scholars and (The Shahnama) researchers, have theorized that, instead of the Persian lexeme زر (meaning “gold” and transliterated as “zar”) in the main prose text of The Shahnama, the Persian lexeme رز (meaning “grapes” or “vine” and transliterated as “raz”) has mistakenly been used by Firdausi because of an oversight in placing the sporadic feature of the Persian alphabet “Noqteh” (or ‘dot’) above the base letterر (analogous to the English ‘r’) thus changing it into the letterز (analogous to the English letter ‘z’). On this basis, the Persian lexemes ‘zar’, ‘zarank’, ‘zareh’ and ‘zariye’ which mean “water world” can be related and taken altogether to signify the ‘Hamoun Lake’ or ‘Zareh Kianseh’. This new theory, if accepted by others, will mean that the ‘arrow’ and ‘bow’ made out of tamarisk wood and used by the protagonist hero in The Shahnameh have been brazened in ‘Zar Water’ (or the HAMOUN Lake), this will not only resolve the prosodic mistake observed in the distich but will also expand its meaning as well as its mystical and mythical atmosphere which comes from the sacredness commonly associated with “Zareh Kianseh.”

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AKBARI, MANOOCHEHR, & MOJAVEZI, MOHAMMAD. (2009). RAZ WATER OR ZAR WATER: ON THE RESOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OBSERVED IN A DISTICH IN FIRDAUSI’S THE SHAHNAMA. PERSIAN LITERATURE (FACULTY OF LETTERS AND HUMANITIES), 1(1), 1-20. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/210488/en

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AKBARI MANOOCHEHR, MOJAVEZI MOHAMMAD. RAZ WATER OR ZAR WATER: ON THE RESOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OBSERVED IN A DISTICH IN FIRDAUSI’S THE SHAHNAMA. PERSIAN LITERATURE (FACULTY OF LETTERS AND HUMANITIES)[Internet]. 2009;1(1):1-20. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/210488/en

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MANOOCHEHR AKBARI, and MOHAMMAD MOJAVEZI, “RAZ WATER OR ZAR WATER: ON THE RESOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OBSERVED IN A DISTICH IN FIRDAUSI’S THE SHAHNAMA,” PERSIAN LITERATURE (FACULTY OF LETTERS AND HUMANITIES), vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1–20, 2009, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/210488/en

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