What it means
آدرس وب (âdres-e veb) is the Persian term for a web address or URL, the string you type into a browser to reach a website. آدرس (âdres) entered Persian from French adresse, while وب (veb) is a direct borrowing from English. Together they form a natural compound that Iranians use in both formal writing and everyday speech. The shorter form آدرس سایت (âdres-e sâyt) is also very common and means the same thing.
How to use it
- آدرس وب سایت رو برام بفرست. (âdres-e veb-e sâyt ro baram beferest.) “Send me the website address.”
- آدرس وب اشتباهه، ۴۰۴ میده. (âdres-e veb eshtebahe, 404 mide.) “The web address is wrong, it’s giving a 404.”
- آدرس وب رو کپی کن توی مرورگر بذار. (âdres-e veb ro kapi kon tu-ye morugar bezâr.) “Copy the web address and paste it in the browser.”
- آدرس وب دقیقاً با حروف کوچیک باید نوشته بشه. (âdres-e veb daqiqan bâ horufe kuchik bâyad neveshte beshe.) “The web address must be written in exactly lowercase letters.”
Cultural note
In Iran, internet access expanded rapidly after the early 2000s, and with it came a flood of technical English terms absorbed wholesale into spoken Persian. آدرس وب is one of the most stable of these borrowings: neither the government’s Farsi-language councils nor everyday speakers have found a compelling pure-Persian replacement, so the hybrid French-English compound stuck. On official documents and government websites, you will sometimes see نشانی اینترنتی (neshâni-ye interneti) as the formal alternative, but in practice almost nobody uses it in conversation.