Farsi Lexicon

Zendeh bad Iran! - Long live Iran!

atash - fire

azadi - liberty, freedom, independence

ba - with

bādām - almond (badam bedune namak - almond without salt)

bargaštan - to return, come back

bedune - without

bah bah - how good! Wow!

berenj - uncooked rice

borj - tower

chador - veil or scarf

chai - tea

chello - steamed Persian rice

dar - door

dobara - again

dokhtar - daughter

geshangi (ghashang) - beautiful, pretty, lovely

halleh - All good. It is solved.

javid - eternal, everlasting, immortal

khāneh - house or home

khayli - very (Khayli khoob - very good)

khiâbân - street

khodâfez - goodbye

khoob - good

khoresh - stew

khoshhaal - glad, happy

khyar - cucumber (mast ba khyar - yogurt with cucumber)

kučeh - alley

kuh - mountain

luleh - pipe or tube

madar - mother or māmān (informal)

mast - yogurt

māshin - car/automobile

mazra'e - farm

morgh - chicken

namak - salt

nan- bread

pedar - father or baba (informal)

parandeh - bird (parandegân - birds)

panjereh - window

pesar - son

piste - pistacio

qanat - canal or conduit

salam - hello

shab (pronounced sheb) - night

shab bekheir - goodnight

shah- king or ruler

shahbanu - female ruler, queen or empress

shām - dinner

shams - sun (borrowed from Arabic)

shir - lion, also can refer to milk, or a faucet/tap

shirzan - lioness or a brave woman

sobh - morning

tokhm - seed, egg, semen, testicle

tokhm morgh - egg (of chicken)

vatan - homeland

yad - memory