بررسي واژگان دام داري در گويش دواني

The Terminology of Animal Husbandry in the Davani Dialect

Davan is an old village north of the city of Kazerun in Fars province, which is better known than the other villages in the area because it is the birth-place of Allameh-ye Davani, a 9th /15th century Islamic theologian who is the author of several scholarly works. The inhabitants of Davan -- dwindling in number in recent years -- have long been goat and sheep herders. They live in close proximity to the Qashqai nomads, but they speak an Iranian dialect which is rich in words that define every type of goat and sheep and what they produce in the way of meat, milk and wool. The present paper is a monograph that the author has prepared after a substantial amount of field work on the vocational practices of the people of Davan, especially in regard to the animals they breed. The author systematically expounds these terms, transcribes their local pronunciation and gives also their equivalents in standard Persian, wherever there are such equivalents. For instance bal javur is a goat with large ears and a reddish brown body. Or talek is just a grey kid.