Abstract

Exploration and investigation of the past times’ literary texts from various perspectives ‎enable the ever-increasing recognition and discovery of their unknown capabilities and, ‎besides giving literary pleasures, illuminates the path and provides the researchers with ‎solutions and variegated uses for the achievement of the creation of better works in ‎future. Ferdowsi’s Shah Nameh is one of the most outstanding and most valuable ‎works enumerated amongst the first hand artworks in terms of literary, national and ‎semantic values. One of the subjects that can be contemplated and examined in this ‎regard is the functions of the words of the adjective type that have been skillfully ‎applied by Hakim Ferdowsi for expanding the breadth of his words; these are the ‎words the signification circle of which transcends beyond the limits of a word and ‎seem to be a lot more vaster in literal and semantic terms than what they look and their ‎inclusion circle is also wider. In order to induce the sensory or abstract concepts, ‎Hakim Ferdowsi has selected words and adjectives that either have a very vast ‎semantic domain or have been expanded in their semantic domain by himself through ‎taking advantage of completely masterful techniques. The current research paper uses ‎descriptive-analytical method to deal with the role of adjectives in fostering the story in ‎Ferdowsi’s Shah Nameh and the researcher intends to represent part of Ferdowsi’s ‎abilities and creativities that have been influential during hundreds of years for the ‎fluency and eloquence of Shah Nameh’s words but have been so far left unattended‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎.