#persian
Langerood/ Gilan/ Iran
Photography: pouria pakizeh
I was brought to a Middle Eastern country, I was given the name Sana and I became the bellydancer of my Muslim Man❤️
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I was trying to brush up on my Russian, when I discovered a website called Foreigncy. It’s “a one-of-a-kind language training system for advanced level students and language professionals.” They currently have Russian, Arabic, and Hebrew available for English natives. (It looks like they used to have Persian, Urdu and Mandarin, but they haven’t been updated for a couple years.)
Users go through a three-step process: first, you’re given an English language summary of the foreign news article. Then, you’re given a set of vocab lists, flashcards and quizzes to prepare you for the vocab in the article. Finally, once you feel you have familiarised yourself with the vocabulary and the subject matter, they send you to a real-life news article.
Let me know what you think of this resource! Happy learning!
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آن کس که بداند و بداند که بداند”
اسب خود از این گنبد گردون براهاند
آن کس که بداند و نداند که بداند
بیدار کنیدش که بسی خفته نماند
آن کس که نداند و بداند که نداند
لنگان خرک خویش به منزل برساند
آن کس که نداند و نداند که نداند
“در جهل مرکّب ابدالدهر بماند- A Persian-Tajik thirteenth-century poet Ibn Yamin (ابن یمین فریومدی)
Horoscope, Ancient Iran, by Imad al-Din Mahmud al-Kashi
Showing the positions of the heavens at the moment of Prince Iskandar’s birth on April 25, 1384
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یکی بود، یکی نبود. غیر از خدا هیچکس نبود
One was, one wasn’t. Other than God, there was nobody.
[or: “once upon a time,” the opening phrase of Persian fairy tales]
“Yeki bood, yeki nabood. Gheir az khoda hichkas nabood.”
Putting the transliteration here so people that cannot read the Persian script can get a sense of how freaking cool this sounds.
Transcription:āb-o-havā
Meaning: weather (literally: water and air)
کون
Transcription:kun
Meaning: butt, ass
بزاق
Transcription:bozāq
Meaning:saliva
چوب ماهیگیری
Transcription: čub-e māhi-giri
Meaning: fishing rod
دوربین دوچشمی
Transcription: durbin-e dočešmi
Meaning:binoculars
غار
Transcription:ġār
Meaning: cave, cavern, grotto
سرندیپ
Transcription:sarandip
Meaning: the Persian name for Sri Lanka, from which comes the English word “serendipity”
دماوند
Transcription:damāvand
Meaning: Damavand, the highest peak of Iran and the highest volcano in the whole of Asia, standing at about 5,600 meters above sea level; it is located in the Mazandaran province in northern Iran.
کارتاژ
Transcription:kārtāž
Meaning:Carthage
نمی‌دانم / نمی‌دونم
Transcription: nemi-dānam (formal) / nemi-dunam (informal)
Meaning: I don’t know
مودرایه
Transcription:mudrāya
Meaning: Mudraya, the Persian name of Egypt in the time of the Achaemenid Empire (2,500 years ago)
زردی
Transcription:zardi
Meaning:jaundice
