Social Rituals
یعنی
/ ya'ni /
discourse-marker · that is, I mean
Say itYAA-ni
Meaning
معنی۱
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
مثالیعنی چی؟
yâni chi?
What do you mean?
یعنی نمیای؟
yâni nemiyây?
You mean you're not coming?
دوستمه، یعنی پسرعمومه
dustame, yâni pesar amume
He's my friend, I mean my cousin
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.
یعنیya'ni
keeps company with ۳ words