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Social Rituals

یعنی

/ ya'ni /
discourse-marker  ·  that is, I mean

Meaning

معنی
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Listen to any Tehran podcast or street interview and yâni surfaces every few seconds. It is the verbal stitch holding casual Persian together. Overusing it sounds nervous or uncertain, but using it never sounds wrong.

In a sentence

مثال
یعنی چی؟
yâni chi?
What do you mean?

In its constellation

در پیوند

No word stands alone. Follow a thread to the words it lives beside — hover to read one, click to open it.

See it in the whole constellation →
یعنیya'ni
یهyeمعناmaanâیکیyeki
یعنیya'ni
keeps company with ۳ words