Applications of Prayer in Arabic and Persian Based on Del Haymes Model (Case Study: Fictional Texts)

Subject Areas : شعر

maleka ahmadi qandak ¹ , fereshteh afzali ²

1 - Master's degree in Arabic translation from Damghan University, Iran.
2 - /Assistant Professor, Department of Arabic Translation, Faculty of Humanities, Damghan University, Iran.

Received: 2024-02-07 Accepted : 2024-11-11 Published : 2025-03-10

Keywords: Cultural Differences, Spoken Prayer Action, Del Hymes, Arabic Stories.,

Abstract :

This descriptive-analytical study seeks to study the practice of prayer speech and its practical differences in Arabic and its Persian translation. For this purpose, in order to study these actions and discourses in fictional texts and in order to collect data, we randomly selected three collections of the noble works of »Naguib Mahfouz« the famous Egyptian author: Shahr o al-Asal, Thaht o almezalla and Beit Sayye alsoma a. then we explored parts of the prayer using the eight-frame framework proposed by Del Himes (1976) (SPEAKING) and provided a suitable translation in the target language. Findings show that the amount and frequency of prayer words and utterances in different situations according to different circumstances are different among Persian and Arabic speakers. Because some words containing prayer in the source language have a completely different meaning from the target language. According to the analysis of all the analyzed data, the act of praying in the stories of Shahr-o-Alasal is 22, Taht o almezalla, 9, and Bait Sayye a-Soma'a is 11. Considering the findings obtained in these three collections, the highest frequencies belong to the story collection of Shahr al-Asal, Bitsiya al-Sama'ah, and al-Mutzalah, respectively. On the other hand, the uses of prayer speech in these three sets of stories are: Asking God, asking for forgiveness, asking for forgiveness, asking for good, eliminating danger, wishing health and longevity, sarcasm, praise, happiness, helplessness, mockery, etc.

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