تدفین
تدفین (tadfin) means interment or burial. It is an Arabic form-II verbal noun from the root د-ف-ن and carries a formal, religious register in Persian, used in official and legal contexts.
Glossary
خاکسپاری
خاکسپاری (khâksepâri) means burial. It is a fully native Persian word built from khâk (earth) and sepârdan (to entrust), literally meaning entrusting to the earth.
تشییع جنازه
تشییع جنازه (tashyi’-e jenaze) is the standard Persian phrase for funeral procession. Both components come from Arabic, making it a fully Arabic-origin compound used in everyday speech.
تشییع
تشییع (tashyi’) is the formal Arabic-rooted Persian word for a funeral procession, describing the ritual act of accompanying the deceased to the place of burial.
تسلیت گفتن
تسلیت گفتن (tasliyat goftan) means to offer condolences. It pairs the Arabic noun tasliyat with the Persian verb goftan, making it a cross-origin light-verb phrase.
تسلیت
تسلیت (tasliyat) is the Arabic-rooted Persian word for condolences, offered at funerals, on the fortieth day of mourning, or any time a death is announced.
تئاتر
تئاتر (te’âtr) means theater, covering both the venue and the performing art. Borrowed from French théâtre, it sits alongside the native Persian word تماشاخانه for the same concept.
آتشنشانی
آتشنشانی (âtash-neshâni) means fire station or fire department. A compound of two Old Iranian roots, it is one of the few emergency-service names in Persian with no loanword component.
کلانتری
کلانتری (kalântari) means a police station. The word derives from kalântar, a Safavid-era administrative title built on کلان (kalân, great, big), a word borrowed into Persian from Parthian, an ancient Iranian language.
خشکشویی
خشکشویی (khoshk-shuyi) means a dry cleaner’s or laundry. Both parts of this compound are pure Persian: khoshk (dry) and shuyi (washing), making it a fully native word for a familiar city shop.