باگاژ
باگاژ (bagaj) means the car boot or trunk, the luggage compartment at the rear of a vehicle. Borrowed directly from French bagage. Widely used in everyday Persian alongside the phrase صندوق عقب.
Glossary
شیشه ماشین
شیشه ماشین (shishe-ye mashin) means a car window or the windshield. A mixed compound: shishe is native Persian for glass, while mashin is a European loanword via French. Everyday A2 vocabulary.
صندلی عقب
صندلی عقب (sandali-ye aqab) means the back seat of a vehicle. Both core components, sandali (seat, from Arabic-borrowed roots) and aqab (rear, Arabic), came into Persian through Arabic. Essential vocab for any car journey.
صندلی جلو
صندلی جلو (sandali-ye jolo) means the front seat of a vehicle. A compound of Arabic-rooted sandali (seat) and jolo (front), a word of disputed origin in Persian. Used in everyday driving talk.
موتور ماشین
موتور ماشین (motor-e mâshin) means the engine or motor of a car. Both components are European loanwords joined by Persian ezafe: “motor” from English and “mashin” from French “machine”.
پنچر
پنچر (panchar) means a flat tyre or puncture. Borrowed from English “puncture”, it is used across Iran for any tyre that has lost air, whether sudden or slow.
آژانس
آژانس (azhans) means a local taxi dispatch or cab company in Iran. Borrowed from French agence. While agence covers any agency, in Iranian Persian it has narrowed to mean specifically a telephone-booking car service.
سواری
سواری (savari) means a shared taxi or shared intercity ride in Iran. A pure Persian word rooted in سوار (savar, rider). In practice it names the fixed-route shared taxis that are a cornerstone of Iranian ground transport.
چراغ قرمز
چراغ قرمز (cheragh-e qermez) means red light or traffic light at an intersection. A mixed-origin compound: cheragh is native Persian and qermez comes from Arabic. The most common term for a traffic signal in daily speech.
چراغ راهنما
چراغ راهنما (cheragh-e rahnama) means indicator light or turn signal on a vehicle. A fully native Persian compound: cheragh (lamp) plus rahnama (guide). Used in both formal and everyday driving contexts.