Local Name of some trees in Gilan province

Subject Areas : ecology

Ghassem Habibi Bibalani ¹ (Department of Natural Resources, Shabestar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shabestar, Iran)
Parisa Mohamadpour ² (2. Faculty Member, Assistant Professor of Research. Forests and Rangeland Research and Watershed Management Department (Natural Resorses Research Department), Gilan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO (Agricultural)
Fatemeh Mosazaded SayadMahaleh ³ (3. Graduate of Persian Literature, Azadegan 4- Shabestar, No. 67, Iran)

Received: 2020-09-07 Accepted : 2020-10-02 Published : 2019-11-22

Keywords: Dialect, Gilan province, Local name, trees,

Abstract :

One of the most important things in rural tourism and nature tourism and recreation in forested areas with tree cover knows local names trees as part of social linguistic data. Social linguistics is a type of linguistic study that is recognized as a cultural subject that is closely related to the social relations of the community that speaks that language. One of the things that play an important role in local dialects is the names of trees and shrubs. The Gilan Province (Chabouksat City to Astara City) have different subcultures, as well as different dialects, but have a common origin. In this study, it was tried to visit different areas of these province and conduct interviews and also to study the authoritative sources of local names of trees and shrubs. In this study, about 90 local names for the trees in Gilan Province, which are mainly the names used in this provinces in different dialects, were recorded.