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Bashah R. An Attempt to Identify the Phonetic and Semantic Evolution of the Pahlavi Word "Tigrāḥy" and changing it to the Word Attributed to the Turkic Language "Toghrā". Cult Herit Rec Stud 2023; 1 (1)
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Retired faculty member of Cultural Heritage and Tourism Research Institute , r_bashash@yahoo.com
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The author, during a discussion in his two previous papers - mentioned in the main article - together with the text of Shapur Pahlavi inscription in the Hājiābād cave (ŠH), has suggested the possibility of converting the extinct word in Middle Persian “tigrāḥy”, that means "shooting or throwing arrow", to the word "Ṭughrā " and believe that it is not a Turkic word with an unknown and ambiguous root, but by referring to some historical texts and rich Persian literature and relying on the criterion of phonetic plausibility in linguistics, a word with historical Persian roots. This paper is a response to the appendix of "Sudavar"’ article entitled "The Mongol Legacy of Persian Farmāns" in which the origin of the word "Ṭughrā" is regarded as of the Turkic language. Although some of the early Turkic lexicographers, like the most reliable of them, "Mahmoud Kashghari" 467-486 (AH.), read it as "Ṭughrāgh" in the "Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk", meaning "signature", with an unknown root and origin meaning, the majority of contemporary Turkic and non-Turkic lexicographers as "Sudavar", consider the word "Ṭughrā" resulting from the mistake of the Iranian scribes of the Seljuk court in the pronunciation and distortion of the name "Turghāi", the legendary bird of the Turks, or using the first three letters ṭ.ɣ.r of the name Ṭughril/Ṭughrol to devise the word "Ṭughrā”. It can be said that what they say about experienced Persian scribes is very strange and unreasonable. However, this might be true and accepted by all old and contemporary lexicographers and literary men throughout history, before discovering and deciphering the Sassanid Shapur inscription (ŠH) in HājiĀbād Pars. It should be mentioned that the present study is conducted based on the said inscription. After discovering it by R.K. Porter in 1818 (AD) and presenting its translation respectively by scholars such as Hertzfeld, Klima, Nyberg, and finally Mackenzie in 1979 under the title "Shapur's Shooting", the author has presented and proposed his point of view.
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Rock Inscriptions
Received: 2023/03/30 | Accepted: 2023/07/9 | Published: 2023/09/6
Received: 2023/03/30 | Accepted: 2023/07/9 | Published: 2023/09/6
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