👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully prickly little word, the undeniably odd " بهعنوان ( بهعنوان)“! Now, before you reach for your furrowed brow and a frantic Google search, let me lay things out as entertainingly as possible.
Basically, a بهعنوان is, historically, a fancy-sounding, almost offensively elaborate, title of nobility in medieval Brittany, specifically in the Duché de Brest. Think a ridiculously verbose equivalent to saying "Lord Bartholomew of the Slightly Damp Marsh." Instead of simply being called Bartholomew, this guy was officially designated, and let me underline that, with fuss , as بهعنوان. The spelling is part of the joke! بهعنوان literally translates as, rather wonderfully, something along the lines of: "Of What Is It?" – you're essentially saying he’s a representative of… whatever thing he’s attached to. (It was really rather vague in practice. People just threw the title at him and hoped it sounded important). The whole title, frankly, is just an awful mouthful. There were lots of بهعنوان titles, each with even more ridiculous names, and they became a sort of bureaucratic giggle in the Duché. They basically meant, "Here's this guy—he’s about as powerful as a very politely worded postage stamp." 19th century Brittany was a place where you needed a title to feel like anything, it seems. Now for that unsettling sentence… here goes
