فلز
فلز (felez) is the Persian word for metal, borrowed from Arabic filizz. It refers to any metallic substance such as iron, gold, or copper and appears widely in everyday and technical speech.
Glossary
هیدروژن
هیدروژن (hidrozhen) is the Persian word for hydrogen, borrowed from French hydrogène. It is the lightest and most abundant element in the universe, essential in chemistry and energy science.
کربن
کربن (kârbon) is Persian for carbon, borrowed from French carbone. It names the nonmetallic element that forms the chemical backbone of all known life and appears in everything from diamonds to CO2.
اکسیژن
اکسیژن (oksizhen) is Persian for oxygen. The word came from French oxygène, coined by Lavoisier. The Persian ending -zhen directly reflects the French -gène, marking its French origin clearly.
ازت
ازت (azot) is Persian for nitrogen, borrowed from the French word azote coined by Antoine Lavoisier. A close synonym in modern Persian is نیتروژن (nitrozhen), which is now more common.
سونامی
سونامی (sonâmi) is Persian for tsunami, a massive ocean wave triggered by earthquakes or volcanic eruptions. The word is originally Japanese and reached Persian through English and international media.
پروتئین
پروتئین (proteyin) is Persian for protein, a word Persian borrowed from French. It refers to the large biomolecules essential for the structure and function of all living cells.
دیانای
دیانای (di-en-ey) is Persian for DNA, the molecule that carries genetic information. Borrowed directly from English, it is used in science, medicine, and everyday news contexts.
تکامل
تکامل (takâmol) is the Persian word for “evolution” or “development,” from Arabic tafâ’ul morphology on the root k-m-l (perfection, completeness). It is the standard term in biology but also used broadly for progress.
باکتری
باکتری (bâkteri) is the Persian word for “bacterium” or “bacteria,” reaching Persian through French bactérie. The root is Greek baktērion, a small rod, but French was the transmitting language into nineteenth-century Persian.