the arabic word “wadi”, which was clearly understood by the arab nomads, had not been used in the ancient persian texts. the first uses of this word in the persian works go back to late third century after hijrah, when the translators had to find equivalents for ten qur’anic usages of the word. the present research aims to study which equivalents were employed in different periods for this word...

test the psychometric properties of the persian version of the perception of psychiatry survey questionnaire, which is being used in a large multi-site international study, of which we were part. this instrument was designed to measure the attitudes of medical educators to psychiatry.we used world health organization guideline as the methodological model for persian translation. the persian ver...

black humor plays a crucial role in fulfilling langston hughes's anti-racist purposes as an integral notionin his poetry. accordingly, translation(s) of his poetry are to benefit from the same indexes onthe basis of equivalent effect principle. on this account, 33 black-humor-rich poems of hughes, translatedby ahmad shamloo, yaghma golruee and hassan fayyad, were selected to be analyzed contras...

translation of idioms seems to be complicated for most translators since the meaning of idioms is difficult and sometimes impossible to be deduced from the meaning of their individual components. considering the difficulties of translation of idioms and also the specific constraints of subtitling such as space and time limits, this research studied the strategies employed in translation of idio...

Many studies can be found on translation teaching and students' perceptions of different classroom prac- tices. However, few studies have focused on how translator trainers view the task at hand. In the present study, the researchers aimed to explore the challenges translator trainers faced during the act of teaching translation. The method applied in this research was ethnography. The pa...

as the financial structure of the public and private corporations in the islamic republic of iran differs from those operating in the west it appears to be a difficult task to find equivalent terminology in farsi for financial terms applied in english and french. by the same token, direct translation of the western financial jargons to farsi results in misunderstanding at hest and confusion at ...