شبکه مفهومی وادی در گفتمان سده های نخست هجری

Abstractssemantic net of wadi in first islamic centuries discoursemehran esmaeili1assistant professor, department of history & civilization of islamicnations, shahid beheshti university, tehran, irantranslating the term wadi to different terms such as darreh, (valley),biyaban , desert, mantaqeh, region and sarzamin , land and recentlymasil and in some cases avoiding to translate it reveals that in spite ofa long time of interaction between persian and arabic languages, thereis no a definite equivalent for this term in persian yet. therefore,thetranslators rely on their experiences and the text evidence fortranslating wadi into persian. this study tries to reveal what the termwadirefers to in arabic and why it does not have a definite equivalentin farsi. it seems that the unification of the desert with the nomadiclife has led toward the creation of this term in arabic. other conceptssuch as the source of water, plantations, animal realm and humanlodging and roads have created semantic net of wadi. as nomadic lifehas not been very prevalent in deserts in iran, so, this term has lost itssignificance and semantic net in persian and consequently,gainedanother one.keywords: wadi, river, manzil, w?eah, geographical terms.1. email: mehran.es.k@gmail.com