The article is devoted to the Persian concept of āberū , which in contemporary Persian expresses the meanings of ‘good reputation’, ‘good social image’, and ‘honour’ that a man possesses in the eyes of others. This concept, fundamental to the Persian culture, can be studied from multiple perspectives—linguistic, sociological, religious, or ethical. However, the present article’s main objective is to draw attention to the parallelism between the concept of āberū and the idea of light and luminosity. The author attempts to reconstruct the ‘memory’ of this concept by analysing the etymology of the term āberū , its semantics and selected contexts of its use in the classical Persian texts.

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光的记忆：Āberū的波斯概念

本文专门讨论波斯的āberū概念，在当代波斯语中表示男人在他人眼中拥有的“良好声誉”，“良好社会形象”和“荣誉”的含义。这个概念是波斯文化的基础，可以从语言，社会，宗教或伦理等多个角度进行研究。但是，本文的主要目的是提请人们注意āberū概念与光与光度概念之间的平行性。作者试图通过分析“ beru”一词的词源，其语义以及在古典波斯语文本中使用的特定语境来重构该概念的“记忆”。