%0 Journal Article %T Comparative Study of the Passive Verb in Arabic and Persian Languages from the Perspective of Grammatical and Semantic %A Dr. M. Zarkoob %A S. Rezaei %J Literary Arts %D 2012 %I University of Isfahan %X Verb is one the important categories and main elements of sentence which is sometimes divided in similar types in Arabic and Persian. One of the main types of verb existed in both languages is passive verb. Although this appellation is apparently common in both languages, it seems passive verbs are completely equivalent in both languages; but since passive verb in the Persian language has been discussed from different aspects compared with Arabic, in this article we are looking for some answers to these questions that if we can find other structures apart from passive structure which are accounted as passive in their meanings? Which kind of relationship is there between grammatical and semantic structures of passive verb in both languages? What are grammatical and semantic differences and similarities of passive verb in Persian and Arabic languages? The results of this survey decreased translation errors of students. We also state this example as a result of this research that, not only there is an auxiliary verb in both languages is investigated as a passive-maker but also, there are some planar verbs in both languages and also voice changes are occurred in addition to inflection changes. %K Passive Verb %K Comparative Study %K Persian Language %K Arabic Language %K Grammatical Research. %U http://uijs.ui.ac.ir/liar/browse.php?mag_id=8&slc_lang=en&sid=1