رخش يا دخش؟

Rakhsh or Dakhsh?

چكيده در اين مقاله كوشش شده است تا مبتني بر رويكردي تحليلي – مقايسه‌اي ‌اختلاف صورت‌نگاشته‌هاي دو واژه «رخش» و «دخش» در فعل مركب «رخش / دخش‌كردن به معناي «تيره و سياه كردن» در چهار بيت شاهنامه فردوسي واكاوي، مقايسه و شرح شود. بنابراين، در مسير شرح و پردازش مباحث نوشتار، به بررسي جايگاه صرفي و معنايي اين واژگان، در چارچوب رويكرد مقايسه‌اي به نسخه‌هاي مورد بررسي شاهنامه پرداخته‌ايم. نتايج پژوهش از جمله گوياي آن است كه «رخش» و «رخش كردن» در فرهنگ‌ها و متون فارسي به معناي «سياه و تيره كردن» ديده نمي‌شود و اشتقاق واژه نيز دقيقاً متضادّ اين معناست، امّا ريشه شناسي‌‌هاي پيشنهاد شده براي «دخش» معناي «سياهي» را براي آن تاييد مي‌كند.

In the past few decades one of the difficulties and questions in the field of philology of Shahnameh is the ambiguity concerning the record of either “Rakhsh” or “Dakhsh” used in the phrasal verb “to rakkhsh/Dakhsh with the meaning of “ to darken “ in four couplets of Shahnameh. The majority of shahnameh manuscripts in this regard is “Rakhsh” and the choice of most editions and authentic emendations except for the text edited by Dr Khaleghi Motlagh and his colleagues is “Dakhsh”. The word “dakhsh” which means “dark” apparently was first recorded in Jahangiri Dictionary compiled (1017 H.G) with reference from Shahnameh and then was repeated in other Dictionaries. The author of this article based on certain documents assumes that the latter form if genuine is more accurate and is more superior to Rakhsh. Moreover it is likely that in Shahnameh manuscripts it would have been altered to a more familiar and simple form of Rakhsh. Rakhsh and “to Rakhsh” with the meaning of “to darken” is not seen in Farsi Dictionaries and texts and the etymology of this word is also completely opposite of this meaning, however the suggested etymologies for Dakhsh confirms the meaning of “blackness” for it.