Molavi is one of the Iranian poets who has a considerable impact on western scholars not only in previous decades known as the period of colonization but also in recent decades. His works has been translated to European languages either completely or selectively. Linguistic subtleties applied in Molavi’s verses have an undoubted connection with sublime and edifying concepts in his poems. These subtleties are prone to effacement when translated into other languages with systems of thoughts totally different from Persian one. One of these subtleties worthy of attention is collocation. Appearing in almost every poet in the world as one of the linguistic tools, collocations help the poets to apply brevity in their verses. The point is that collocations are different structurally and conceptually from one language to another and a translator should deal with them carefully in order to render them as meaningfully in the target language as possible. The present article seeks to compare collocations in Mathnavi Manavi by Molavi and their corresponding translations in order to discover faults and merits of techniques used by a translator and the lost and gains resulted by these techniques.

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