Some Remarks on the Perso-Arabic Nominal Lexica in Bollywood Movie Song Lyrics

• Authors: Tomasz Gacek

Abstracts

EN

The Indian film industry releases thousands of movies every year, with those in the Hindi language forming a significant part of that number. These movies, and the songs used in them, have been the object of research within the scope of various scientific disciplines, including linguistics. The author of the present paper, however, believes that there are still numerous language phenomena to study within the lyrics of the Bollywood songs. The present text is dedicated to research of the Perso-Arabic lexica in these songs over the period of 80 years (1940–2020). It also analyses the frequency of the Perso-Arabic forms as opposed to native Indo-Aryan ones. Particular attention is paid to the forms of the highest frequency, especially the Persian word dil.

Keywords

EN

Bollywood; Hindi; Persian; Arabic; loanwords; frequency

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN
• Journal: Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia
• Year: 2023
• Issue: 36
• Pages: 39-67

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Tomasz Gacek

• Jagiellonian University, Cracow

• https://orcid.org/0000000281112797

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Identifiers

DOI

10.60018/AcAsVa.njyu2866

Biblioteka Nauki

35024036