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فرهنگ

The world the language lives in

A language is a doorway, not a wordlist. The poems Iranians quote by heart, the nights they stay up for, the tea that never stops coming. Learn these and the words start to mean something.

۱فروردین۲۳۴۵۶۷۸۹۱۰۱۱۱۲
فروردین
Farvardin
Spring · Mar–Apr
The Persian year · گاه‌شماری

Nowruz

نوروز

The year turns on the spring equinox. A haft-sin table of seven symbols, thirteen days of visiting, and the whole country exhales at once.

نوروز
nowruz
new day
Tap any month on the wheel

Six ways in

درها
شعر

The poets

Hafez, Rumi, Saadi, Ferdowsi. The couplets Iran keeps by heart and quotes at dinner tables.

Read a couplet
جشن

Festivals & the year

Nowruz, Yalda, the fire nights. A solar calendar you can feel in the food and the light.

Turn the wheel
سفره

Food & the table

Tea that never stops, saffron, and the spread that quietly says: you are welcome here.

Set the sofreh
موسیقی

Music & the reed

Setar, tar, ney, and daf, and the modal system called the radif that holds them together.

Hear the modes
تاریخ

History & survival

How one language outlived three thousand years, two alphabets, and every empire that tried to replace it.

Trace the line
آداب

Taarof & manners

The dance of offer and refusal, hospitality raised to an art, and the rules nobody writes down.

Learn the dance
Saadi · سعدی · woven into a carpet at the UN
بنی‌آدم اعضای یکدیگرند
که در آفرینش ز یک گوهرند

“Human beings are limbs of one body, cut from the same cloth at creation.”

Read it line by line →