Treatise on the Investigation of Arabizing Foreign Words مقدمة ومراجعة

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Treatise on the Investigation of Arabization of Foreign Words, authored by: Ahmad bin Suleiman Moaref be Vazir Ibn Kamal Pasha, died 940 AH/1533 AD, edited by: Muhammad Sawai, Damascus, French Scientific Institute for Arabic Studies, 1991 AD, 143 pages of text + 14-172 pages of indexes + 13 pages of introduction in French and English. Of course, most of the Arabic words that entered the Persian language have preserved their form and context, but most Persian words in the Arabic language have undergone fundamental changes, to the extent that identifying their origin and referring to the type of word—whether Pahlavi, Sanskrit, or Dari Persian—requires extreme precision, extensive linguistic research, and knowledge of various living and non-living languages of the world. Importance of the "Treatise" Ibn Kamal Pasha is not the only one who has written about this, as many lexicographers before him have written numerous books and treatises to interpret non-Arabic words and the quality of their change and transformation in the Arabic language. In the conclusion of the treatise, the author refers to some Arabic words that have entered the Persian language and become part of it, mentioning among them Ayaz, Baz, Bayyar, Shahryar, and Qafas. However, according to the famous opinion, Dehqan is the Arabized form of Dehgan, meaning pertaining to a village; for this reason, the author of the book al-Alfaz al-Farsiyya al-Mu'arraba considers the definition of this word as Deh-khan to be weak, and Dr. Mohammad Moin, in the margin of Burhan-e Qati (5), has identified its root as the Pahlavi word dehukanih.