A Model for Toponyms in Markazi Province Villages

Komijani Bozcheloei, Zabihallah; Sadat Ghiasian, Maryam

doi:10.22059/jolr.2024.380976.666895

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

¹ Department of English and Linguistics,Kermanshah Branch,Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah,Iran zabikomijan28@yahoo.com

² Department of language and linguistics Payame Noor University

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2024.380976.666895

Abstract

In understanding the culture and language of any geographical features, it is very important to examine the toponyms. In this study, it has been tried to investigate and classify the places of names of Markazi province in Iran based on the model of Tenet and Blair (2021), who conducted a survey on the places of Australian national. The placesnames studied in this research are the residential placenames in Markazi province including the names of villages based on the official statistics of the National Portal of the Statistical Centre of Iran in 2016. 225 placenames of villages in this province were purposefully selected from among 379 villages based on the factors of linguistic distribution, population density, distance, and existing historical background of the villages. The model of each village is determined approximately based on 7 categories of descriptive, associative, evaluation, occurrent, copied, eponymous and innovative. The findings show that the descriptive category with about 61.08% has the highest percentage and includes 137 placenames. Then, in order, the other categories are placed: the associative category with 47 place names at the limit of 20.85%, the eponymous with 20 cases at about 9.79%, and the occurrent with 18 cases at about 7.84% and the evaluative category with one placename about 0.44%. The categories of copying and invention have been without any placenames

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A Model for Toponyms in Markazi Province Villages

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Volume 15, Issue 2 - Serial Number 26
January 2025
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A Model for Toponyms in Markazi Province Villages

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Volume 15, Issue 2 - Serial Number 26January 2025Pages 239-268

Volume 15, Issue 2 - Serial Number 26
January 2025
Pages 239-268