What it means
فایل پیوست (fâyl-e peyvast) means “file attachment,” the document, image, or other file you send alongside an email or message. فایل is borrowed directly from English “file,” while پیوست comes from the Persian verb پیوستن (peyvastan), meaning “to attach” or “to join.” The compound is cross-origin: one English root, one Persian root. A close synonym is پیوست alone, which speakers also use as a shorthand noun for any attachment.
How to use it
- فایل پیوست رو دریافت کردم. (fâyl-e peyvast ro daryâft kardam.) “I received the file attachment.”
- یه فایل پیوست برات میفرستم. (ye fâyl-e peyvast barât mifarestam.) “I’ll send you a file attachment.”
- فایل پیوست باز نمیشه. (fâyl-e peyvast bâz nemishe.) “The file attachment won’t open.”
- مطمئن شو فایل پیوست رو اضافه کردی. (motma’en sho fâyl-e peyvast ro ezâfe kardi.) “Make sure you added the file attachment.”
Cultural note
In Persian digital culture, the word فایل پیوست is used across all age groups and feels natural in both casual messaging and formal office email. Iranians often shorten it to just پیوست in text, especially in workplace contexts where email etiquette follows a fairly formal register. Because many attachment types, such as PDFs and Word documents, carry English acronyms (پیدیاف, داک), the mixed English-Persian nature of this phrase fits comfortably into how Iranians blend loanwords with native grammar.