Glossary

دلانگیز

دلانگیز (del-anghiz) is a pure Persian adjective meaning heart-stirring or emotionally evocative. It combines del (heart) with anghiz, the agent stem of angikhtan (to arouse).

اجرا

اجرا (ejrâ) means execution, performance, or implementation in Persian, covering everything from performing a song to enforcing a law, all from the Arabic root for making something run or flow.

خبره

خبره (khabre) means an expert or highly experienced specialist in Persian, used as both a noun and an adjective, from the Arabic root for practical experience and knowledge gained through doing.

سوییچ

سوییچ (swich) is the Persian loanword from English “switch” used specifically for a car key, not a light switch, reflecting how the meaning narrowed once the word entered Iranian daily speech.

مأمور

مأمور (ma’mur) means an officer or official assigned to a duty in Persian, from the Arabic root for being commanded, covering police officers, inspectors, and any state-authorized representative.

پریشب

پریشب (prishab) means the night before last in Persian, a compact pure Persian time adverb built from pari (the earlier) and shab (night), parallel to پریروز for the day before yesterday.

فرمانداری

فرمانداری (farmândâri) is the county governor’s office in Iran’s administrative system, a pure Persian compound meaning the institution that holds command over a county (shahrestân).

مجری

مجری (mojri) means a TV or radio presenter or show host in everyday Persian, and in formal contexts an executor of a plan, from the Arabic root for running or carrying out.

اس‌ام‌اس

اس‌ام‌اس (es-em-es) is the Persian rendering of SMS, used for any text message sent by phone, with the verb دادن (dâdan) to send one and آمدن (âmadan) when a text arrives.

چه‌جوری

چه‌جوری (che-juri) is the colloquial Farsi equivalent of چطور, meaning “how” or “in what way,” used constantly in everyday Tehran speech to ask how something happened or how to do something.

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