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شیراز
/ shirâz /
proper-noun · Shiraz
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Meaning
معنی۱
Shirazis are stereotyped across Iran as gentle, slow-paced, and devoted to شعر و گل و بلبل (poetry, flowers, and nightingales). The Shirazi dialect has its own soft cadence. On Yalda night and at Nowruz, families across Iran open the دیوان حافظ (Hafez's collected poems) and ask the book questions, a fortune-telling ritual called فال حافظ. The city smells of orange blossom in spring.
In a sentence
مثالشیراز شهر شعر است
shirâz shahr-e she'r ast
Shiraz is the city of poetry
اهل شیرازم
ahl-e shirâzam
I am from Shiraz
به آرامگاه حافظ رفتم
be ârâmgâh-e Hâfez raftam
I went to Hafez's tomb
In its constellation
در پیوندNo word stands alone. Follow a thread to the words it lives beside — hover to read one, click to open it.
شیرازshirâz
keeps company with ۶ words