Gardoon or Kordoos? Suggestion for correcting a word in Saadi's Golestan

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Associate Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Arak University, Arak, Iran

10.22126/ltip.2025.12321.1370

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 Saadi's Golestan has attracted a great deal of attention from a diverse audience since its composition, and this has led everyone to try to obtain a copy of it for themselves; therefore, even those who were not sufficiently literate and whose work was not writing, created erroneous versions of Golestan, and the abundance of these manuscripts has led to a wide variety of errors, even in the old versions of Golestan. In this study, a comparative correction of the controversial recording of "Gardunesh" in the verse "Bir Garundunesh az Bikh Barengsali" has been addressed, and based on intratextual and extratextual evidence, it has been shown that "Gardoonash" is probably the result of the correction of "Kordoosash" meaning "part of the army". The main reason for the emergence of this correction is, first, the strangeness of the word "Kordoos" and, second, the multiplicity of teeth due to the letters "S" and "Sh" sticking together. 

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Volume 6, Issue 1
March 2025
Pages 136-146

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