Persian to Uyghur: bigger than one animal is not biggest in the group
Persian identifies both a property and its comparison standard
The Texas Persian comparative lesson contrasts bozorg, big, with bozorgtar, bigger. Its žubin az āraš bolandtar ast example says that Jubin is taller than Arash. Arash is the benchmark, not the person asserted to be taller. The person following az supplies the standard against which the other person’s height is compared; it does not describe the origin of a journey.
A Uyghur translation needs to preserve which participant exceeds which other participant. The Persian lesson allows the az phrase before or after the comparative adjective, so its position alone is not a reason to reverse the comparison. Moving the words while retaining their relationship should not turn the taller participant into the shorter one.
The Uyghur example marks the comparison standard on its noun
Kazama and Nitta give Bu it awu ittin çoŋ(raq), this dog is bigger than that dog. Their analysis identifies the ending on the second dog noun as ablative and prints the comparative suffix in parentheses. The example demonstrates a comparison without requiring a separate target word directly corresponding to Persian az.
The parenthesized -raq is especially useful beside the visible Persian -tar. In this attested Uyghur construction, comparative meaning does not depend on reproducing a separate comparative suffix every time. The standard phrase and the larger construction contribute to the interpretation. This is evidence about the cited pattern, not a claim that -raq is freely dispensable in every Uyghur environment.
Likewise, the ablative label does not turn the second dog into a point of departure. In the Persian comparison, az can also have a than relationship. The target suffix and the source preposition must be interpreted within the comparison instead of translated through their spatial dictionary glosses in isolation.
A whole comparison group changes the strength of the claim
The same Uyghur study separately illustrates a dog being the largest within a group of dogs. That claim covers the group rather than just one selected rival. Translating a Persian two-part comparison with this group-wide construction would add a superiority claim that the original sentence need not establish.
The Persian lesson also shows az hame with a comparative for superiority over all the relevant others. Its scope differs from the named Arash standard. If Jubin is taller than Arash, someone else can still be taller than Jubin; a statement that Jubin is tallest excludes that possibility within the intended comparison set.
For Persian into Uyghur, recover the property, the individual being assessed and the exact comparison standard. Distinguish one other participant from all members of a relevant group before rebuilding the target expression. The target can encode the standard through a suffix and express comparison without matching Persian word count, but it must preserve how broad a superiority claim the source actually makes.
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