Bābā and other “strange” persian kin words: areal approach

Abstract

The paper presents the results of the analysis of the relict features of the vertical classification of relatives in Modern Persian, which
is inherent in the languages of the Altaic areal, Turk, in particular: the term āqā designates “elder brother” and “the eldest brother in
the family”, as well as the term dādāsh designates “an elder brother”; the use of the term bābā for “father” and “grandfather”, the
terms jadd for “grandfather”, “great-grandfather” and niyā for “grandfather”, “great-grandfather” and “great-great-grandfather”;
the dialectal use of the word āqā for “elder brother”, “the eldest brother”, “husband” (formal), “father’s brother” and “granddad”.