تجدیدنظر
تجدیدنظر (tajdid-nazar) means appeal or judicial review: a formal request to re-examine a court ruling. Both components are Arabic in origin, and the compound is the standard legal term for challenging a verdict in a higher court.
Glossary
تبرئه
تبرئه (tabre’e) means acquittal or exoneration: a court finding someone not guilty. From Arabic root ب-ر-أ meaning innocence or freedom from blame, it is the formal legal term for being cleared of charges.
اعدام
اعدام (e’dâm) means execution or capital punishment. From Arabic root ع-د-م meaning nonexistence, it is the formal legal term for the death penalty used in Persian courts and official documents.
سانسور
سانسور (sânsur) means censorship or the suppression of information. Borrowed from French “censure”, it describes state or institutional control over what can be published, broadcast, or said.
بازپرس
بازپرس (bâzpors) means investigating magistrate or examining judge, the judicial officer who conducts the pre-trial inquiry in Iran. It is a pure Persian compound from bâz (back, again) and pors (from porsidan, to ask).
تحقیقات
تحقیقات (tahghighât) means investigation or inquiry, used for police investigations, judicial proceedings, and academic research. It is the Arabic plural of tahghigh and belongs to the formal register of Persian.
شاهد عدل
شاهد عدل (shâhed-e adl) means a witness or eyewitness in a formal court or legal context. Both components, shâhed and adl, come from Arabic and the phrase belongs to the formal legal register of Persian.
قربانی
قربانی (qorbâni) means victim, someone harmed by a crime, disaster, or injustice. It comes from the Arabic qurbân, meaning sacrifice or an offering brought near to God, and has broadened in Persian to cover any victim.
مخبر
مخبر (mokhbar) means informant or police informer, someone who reports information to authorities. It comes from the Arabic root kh-b-r, meaning to inform or to have knowledge of something.
قاچاقچی
قاچاقچی (qâchâqchi) means smuggler or trafficker. The word comes from Turkish kaçak (contraband, fugitive) and entered Persian with its Turkish agentive suffix -chi intact.