A debate on the meaning of the word Lablab

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PhD Graduate of Persian Language and Literature, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

10.22034/perlit.2025.63888.3723

Abstract

The word "Lablab" has two meanings in Persian dictionaries. Dictionaries have mentioned one of the meanings of this word as "Azaayem-reader and wizard". By looking at the poetic evidence, it can be seen that the meaning presented by the lexicographers in the latter case was not correct and they registered this meaning due to their misunderstanding of the meaning of the verses in which this word is used. The authors of the present article, after mentioning the dictionaries that have discussed the meaning of the word Lablab, by bringing poetic evidences and examining and analyzing them, put forward their proposed meaning about each of the discussed verses and at the end, the correct meaning of the word Lablab have expressed. The authors have proved that Lablab in the discussed poetic evidence is used in the meaning of magic orb and not enchanter. Also, by referring to Arabic dictionaries and books of apothegm, it has been shown that this mistake was probably made by the Persian-to-Persian lexicographers and Lablab did not appear in Arabic dictionaries in the meaning of enchanter.

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Persian Language and Literature

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Available Online from 02 July 2025

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  • Receive Date: 07 October 2024
  • Revise Date: 24 May 2025
  • Accept Date: 02 July 2025

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