بیدار
بیدار (bidâr) means awake or alert in Persian, a pure Persian adjective from the root of wakefulness, used in بیدار بودن (to be awake), بیدار شدن (to wake up), and بیدار کردن (to wake someone up).
Glossary
خاموش
خاموش (khâmush) means silent, off, or extinguished in Persian, a pure Persian adjective used for switched-off devices, silenced voices, and quenched flames, with a rich poetic history alongside its everyday use.
داخل
داخل (dâkhel) means inside, interior, or within in Persian, borrowed from Arabic دَاخِل (dâkhil), and also carries the sense of domestic or internal as opposed to foreign, making it a high-frequency preposition and adjective.
کل
کل (kol) means whole, entire, or total in Persian, borrowed from Arabic کُلّ (kull) meaning all or every, and now the everyday Persian word for the entirety of something in both formal and colloquial speech.
زندانی
زندانی (zendâni) means prisoner or imprisoned in Persian, derived from زندان (zendân, prison), itself a pure Persian word, functioning as both a noun for a prisoner and an adjective meaning jailed.
پخش
پخش (pakhsh) means broadcast, distribution, or spread in Persian, a pure Persian noun that covers everything from radio transmissions to distributing goods, built on the root of spreading outward.
دیشب
دیشب (dishab) is the everyday Persian word for last night, a pure Persian compound of di (the previous, an archaic form) and shab (night), used naturally in all registers of spoken Farsi.
شماره
شماره (shomâre) means number, phone number, or issue of a publication in Persian, borrowed from Arabic شَمَارَة and now covering everything from street addresses to SIM cards in everyday Farsi.
اینجوری
اینجوری (injuri) is a colloquial Persian adverb meaning “like this” or “in this way,” formed from in (this) and juri (manner/sort), used constantly in spoken Farsi to describe how something is done.
مروارید
مروارید (morvârid) means pearl. It is a pure Persian word of ancient lineage, used both literally for the gem and figuratively for anything rare and precious, with a long history in Persian poetry.