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Farhang–e Bozorg-e Sokhan (Sokhan’s Grand Dictionary, 8 vol., under the supervision of Hasan Anvari, Sokhan, Tehran, 2002) is relatively a new research in the field of Persian Lexicography. This dictionary as using of the achievements of previous dictionaries has many outstanding innovations various aspects of Lexicography. For example, beside of using of body language, in the process of choosing of words, it has given attention to different aspects of transcription, combinations of words, examples and relevant evidences. Etymology of Persian words is one of the characteristics of this dictionary, especially for the first time, it mentions the Russian origins of 90 Persian words. However, despite of this innovation, we can see some defects and mistakes in the etymology and semantics of Russian loanwords in Persian language; the subject that we will study in this paper. In other words, here we try to answer this main question: “In the Farhang-e Bozorg-e Sokhan, to what extent the Russian loanwords in Persian language has been mentioned correctly and what is their difference with their origins in Russian from the viewpoints of etymology and semantics.    

Keywords: Loanword, Russian language, Persian language, Etymology, Farhang-e Bozorg-e Sokhan

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