ذوقمرگ شدن
ذوقمرگ شدن (zogh-marg shodan) means to be over the moon, so delighted you could die. Colloquial B1 Persian for moments of pure, explosive joy.
Glossary
از کوره در رفتن
از کوره در رفتن (az kure dar raftan) means to fly off the handle or lose your temper entirely. A colourful colloquial idiom built around the image of something bursting out of a furnace.
جوش آوردن
جوش آوردن (jush âvordan) means to boil over with anger. A vivid pure-Persian compound built from “jush” (boiling) and “âvordan” (to bring), used in colloquial speech for explosive temper.
دق کردن
دق کردن (degh kardan) means to die of grief or frustration, used as vivid hyperbole in colloquial Persian. “Degh” comes from Arabic; “kardan” is pure Persian.
حرص خوردن
حرص خوردن (hers khordan) means to seethe or eat yourself up with anger and frustration. This colloquial compound pairs Arabic-origin “hers” with Persian “khordan” for a vivid physical image.
غصه خوردن
غصه خوردن (ghosse khordan) means to fret or grieve over something. A colloquial compound of Arabic-origin “ghosse” and Persian “khordan,” used constantly in everyday spoken Persian.
سرخوردگی
سرخوردگی (sarkhordegi) means frustration or bitter disappointment, the feeling when hope collides with reality. A neutral, everyday word any Persian learner will hear constantly.
فضول
فضول (fozul) means nosy or meddlesome. Borrowed from the Arabic fudul (excess, that which overflows its proper bounds), it is a common colloquial Persian word for the person who cannot resist poking into other people’s business.
منظم
منظم (monazzam) means orderly, tidy, and disciplined. Borrowed from the Arabic root nazzama (to organize or arrange), it is one of the most common personality adjectives in Persian, used for people, schedules, and spaces alike.
شلخته
شلخته (shelakhte) means messy, slovenly, or disorganized. A colloquial Persian adjective with disputed origins, it is one of the sharpest words Iranians use to describe someone whose appearance or home is in permanent disorder.