خر
خر (khar) means donkey in Persian, and it is the everyday insult for calling someone a fool. Warm between close friends, a real insult from a stranger.
Glossary
چاله
چاله (châle) means a pit, hole, or dip in the ground. It is pure Persian and appears in the vivid idiom از چاله در رفتن تو چاه, the Persian equivalent of jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.
تکرار
تکرار (tekrâr) means repetition or repeat in Persian. Borrowed from Arabic, it appears in everyday speech and education. تکرار کردن means to repeat; تکراری means repetitive.
اونجا
اونجا (unja) is the colloquial Persian word for over there, the everyday spoken form of the formal آنجا. It is pure Persian and one of the first location words learners encounter in real spoken Farsi.
مجاور
مجاور (mojâvar) means adjacent or neighboring. It is an Arabic-origin adjective used in formal Persian for spatial proximity; مجاورت is the noun meaning adjacency.
مخلص
مخلص (mokhles) means devoted servant or sincere one. In colloquial Persian, مخلصم is a humble farewell meaning I am your servant, borrowed from Arabic and rooted in Iranian courtesy culture.
تن
تن (tan) means body or one’s person in Persian, one of the oldest words in the language. It appears in formal speech, compounds like تنپوش (garment), and phrases تن دادن به and تن به کار دادن.
آسیب
آسیب (âsib) means harm, damage, or injury in Persian. It is a pure Persian word and combines with رساندن and دیدن to form the two most common compound verbs built around it.
طلبه
طلبه (talabe) means a student of Islamic religious sciences enrolled in a حوزه علمیه (seminary). The word is borrowed from Arabic and refers specifically to clerical students.
خلاف
خلاف (khalâf) means violation, offense, or going against something. It covers traffic infractions, rule-breaking, and the concept of acting contrary to a norm, and is borrowed from Arabic.