استعاره
este-areh is the Persian term for metaphor, the literary device that names one thing by another via implicit comparison.
Glossary
ضربالمثل
zarbolmasal is the Persian meta-word for proverb, the term you reach for when you want to talk about proverbs as a category.
سیاسی
siasi means political in Persian, the -i adjective from siasat (politics), the partner term to ejtemai in journalism and public discourse.
اجتماعی
ejtemai means social in Persian, the -i adjective formed from ejtema (society, gathering), one half of the ejtemai-siasi pair common in journalism.
فرهنگی
farhangi is the adjective from farhang, meaning cultural, formed with the Persian -i suffix that turns nouns into adjectives.
فرهنگ
farhang means culture and also dictionary in Persian, the same word for both. Loghatname-ye Dehkhoda is a farhang.
روشنگری
rowshangari is Persian for enlightenment, both the act of clarification and the 18th century European movement Iranians have argued about.
روشنفکر
rowshanfekr is Persian for intellectual, a politically loaded word that splits between admiring and pejorative since Al-e Ahmad’s 1962 Gharbzadegi.
فیلسوف
filsuf means philosopher in Persian, the Greek philosophos routed through Arabic faylasuf, the word used for Avicenna and Mulla Sadra.
فلسفه
falsafe is philosophy, the Greek discipline that traveled through Arabic into Persian and built one of the great intellectual traditions of the Islamic world.