طلا
طلا (talâ) is the Persian and Arabic-rooted word for gold, used for the metal itself, golden color, and figuratively for anything precious or excellent. Talâyi means golden.
Glossary
بیشرف
بیشرف (bi-sharaf) is a strong Persian insult meaning dishonourable or shameless, a compound of bi (without) and sharaf (honour), used as a direct personal attack on someone’s character.
دوم
دوم (dovvom) is the Persian ordinal for second, built from the number دو (do, two) with the ordinal suffix -om, used for position, rank, and sequence in everyday speech.
طلبکار
طلبکار (talabkâr) literally means creditor in Persian, but colloquially it describes someone acting entitled or resentful, as though others owe them something they never actually lent.
ریختن
ریختن (rikhtan) means to pour, to spill, to shed, or to collapse, one of the most versatile pure Persian verbs, appearing in dozens of compound expressions from pouring tea to shedding tears.
شناختن
شناختن (shenâkhtan) means to know a person, to recognise someone, or to identify something, the Persian verb for familiarity and recognition rather than knowing a fact.
مهد کودک
مهد کودک (mahd-e kudak) is the Persian word for nursery or kindergarten, a compound meaning literally cradle of children, describing the first institutional step in Iranian education.
اشغال
اشغال (eshghâl) means occupied or busy — used for a busy phone line, a taken seat, or land under military occupation — from an Arabic root meaning to be engaged or busy with something. It is not the word for garbage; that is a separate, similarly-sounding word, آشغال (âshghâl).
تومن
تومن (tumân) is the everyday Iranian word for money, the colloquial currency unit equal to ten rials, used in all daily transactions even though the official unit is the rial.
فرشته
فرشته (freshte) means angel in Persian, a pure Persian word used both for the religious concept of a heavenly messenger and as a very common Iranian female given name.