هارد
Hard is the Iranian Persian word for a hard drive or phone storage. Hard-am por shode means my drive is full, a sentence every Iranian says often.
Glossary
رم
Ram is the Iranian Persian word for computer RAM, a basic piece of tech-shopping vocabulary that everyone buying a phone or laptop knows.
اپلیکیشن
Application is the fuller, more formal version of ap, reached for by developers, IT staff, and tech writers when the short form feels too casual.
اپ
Ap is the short A1 word everyone uses in Iran for a mobile application. It has largely displaced the older barnameh, which now sounds dated.
وی پی ان
VPN is the central tool of Iranian internet life. The state has tried to ban VPNs while its own officials use them publicly.
پروکسی
Proxy in Iranian Persian usually refers to the proxy servers shared on Telegram channels to keep the messenger working through state blocks.
فیلترشکنی
Filter-shekani is the noun for the practice of getting around Iranian internet censorship, a daily activity that sits in a legal gray zone.
فیلتر شکن
Filter-shekan means filter-breaker, the everyday Iranian word for a VPN or any tool that gets around the state internet blocks.
ریل
Ril is the Iranian Persian word for an Instagram reel, a short vertical video. It marks a generation: anyone over 50 still says film-kutah.
ترند شدن
trend-shodan is the Persian compound verb for going viral, the engineered act of pushing a hashtag onto the public trending list.