"این عروس" or "ابن عرس"? Correcting a verse from Divan Khaqani

Document Type : short article

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Ministry of Science, Research and Technology

10.22099/jba.2023.45204.4329

Abstract

Due to the abundance of words and combinations and various information in Khaqani's poetry, there have been many errors and misreadings, and some of these interpretations have remained hidden from the commentators and correctors of Khaqani's court even to this day. One of these interesting spellings has occurred in the verse "As this bride is from the skin of Khurram/ As gold was the elemental Khurramvan", the author proposed to correct the analogy of the first stanza in the form of "As Ibn Ars is from the skin of Khorram". has done. "Ibn Ars" is a word that means weasel, and as shown in this article, it is one of the animals that, according to the information obtained from some ancient animal books, was very interested in jewelry, especially dinar and dirham coins, and collected They have found pleasure. In this research, a brief review and analysis of this interpretation in Khaghani's Court has been done.

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