Glossary

seh-barabar means triple or three times as much in Persian, used in dramatic claims about prices, workloads, and big jumps in scale.

do-barabar means double or twice as much in Persian, used in finance, measurement, comparisons, and everyday claims about size or amount.

yek-sevvom means one third in Persian, built from one plus the ordinal third, used in measurement, statistics, and formal writing.

yek-charak means one quarter in Persian, mainly used in telling time and traditional weight measurements at the bazaar.

nim means half in Persian and is the most productive fractional word, forming compounds for half-hour, midday, and half-finished things.

yek-sad is the formal, emphatic Persian word for one hundred, used in writing, official documents, and stressed speech.

takhteh means a sheet, plank, or board and counts backgammon sets, wooden planks, and carpet pieces in Persian.

nakh means thread or strand and works as the Persian counter for cigarettes, threads, and strings in everyday speech.

rishe as a counter means strand, used for threads, ivy tendrils, root vegetables. Distinct from the rishe meaning root or origin.