از واژه گزيني تا ترادف

Word Coinage and Synonymy

Synonymy is a natural phenomenon in human languages. It may be the consequence of borrowing, semantic changes or geographical and stylistic variations. This paper explores a new source of synonymity in Modern Persian, i.e. word coinage for foreign terms. In recent decades, thousands of Persian equivalents have been coined for loan words. Despite the relative establishment of a considerable number of these new words ,the loan words are still current. This process has increased the number of synonymous words in Persian. This paper attempts to introduce the causes of the creation of such synonymy as well as its advantages and disadvantages.