نزول
نزول (nozul) means descent, the revelation of scripture, or interest on a loan in Persian, covering religious, literary, and financial senses all rooted in the Arabic idea of coming down.
Glossary
خداوند
خداوند (khodâvand) means God or the Lord in Persian, a more elevated form of خدا used in prayer, scripture, and formal speech. خداوند متعال is the highest reverential compound.
اینور
اینور (invar) means over here or this side, the colloquial spoken contraction of این طرف, and it is one of those small spatial words that instantly marks relaxed, natural Persian speech.
انفرادی
انفرادی (enferâdi) means solitary, individual, or done alone, and in the compound زندان انفرادی it refers to solitary confinement, one of the most charged phrases in Iranian political discourse.
اینطوری
اینطوری (in-turi) is a colloquial adverb meaning like this or this way, used constantly in spoken Persian to point to a manner of doing something, slightly less slangy than اینجوری.
وانت
وانت (vânat) is the Persian word for a pickup truck or small cargo van, borrowed from English van, and it describes the light goods vehicles that are a constant fixture of Iranian streets and markets.
امام
امام (emâm) means imam, the Muslim prayer leader or religious authority. In Shia Islam it also refers to the line of divinely guided leaders after the Prophet.
طویله
طویله (tavile) means a stable or animal stall in standard Persian, and in colloquial speech it serves as a vivid insult for any place that is filthy, disordered, or unlivably messy.
چایی
چایی (châyi) is the colloquial spoken form of چای, the Persian word for tea, heard in virtually every Iranian home and teahouse. Saying châyi instead of châ marks you as a natural speaker.
اذیت کردن
اذیت کردن (aziyat kardan) means to bother, annoy, or hurt someone, and its passive form اذیت شدن means to be hurt or to feel troubled. One of the most common A2 verbs in spoken Farsi.