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Persian (phonetic)	English	Script	Appears In
somayé, beeyā keefet-o bardār	come here and grab your purse, Somayeh	سُمَیِه، بیا کیفِتو بَردار	A Separation, Part 2
somayé, maghna't koo?	Somayeh, where's your headscarf?	سُمَیِه، مَقنَعِه‌اَت کو؟	A Separation, Part 2
sood bordan	to benefit from	سود بُردَن	payāmé naseem: Hafez's payāmé naseem Part 3
soofee	Sufi	صوفی	payāmé naseem: Hafez's payāmé naseem Part 6
soohkté	burnt	سخنِ	fathe bagh: Forough Farokhzad's fathe bagh Part 3
sookhtam	I burned	سوختَم	More About Pain and Illness
soorat	face	صورَت	Colors (Vocabulary Sprint)
sooratee	pink	صورَتی	Colors (Vocabulary Sprint)
soosmār	crocodile	سوسمار	Animals (Vocabulary Sprint)
sooz	breeze, burning sensation, cold breeze, pain	سوز	sokhanee chand dar eshgh (A Few Words on Love): Nezami Ganjavi's sokhanee chand dar eshgh (A Few Words on Love) Part 5
soozee	you burn	سوزی	payāmé naseem: Hafez's payāmé naseem Part 5
sorfé	cough	سُرفِه	More About Pain and Illness
sorkh	red	سُرخ	How to Describe Things (Includes List of All the Colors), Colors (Vocabulary Sprint)
sorkh shod chon ātashee a'zāyé oo	every part of the moth turned red like a fire	سُرخ شُد چُون آتَشی اَعضایِ او	Parable of the Moths, Part 3
sost	numb	سست	fathe bagh: Forough Farokhzad's fathe bagh Part 3
sosté	burnt	سستِ	fathe bagh: Forough Farokhzad's fathe bagh Part 3
sotooné fagharāt	spine	سُتونِ فَقَرات	Parts of the Body (Vocabulary Sprint)
tā	so that, until	تا	barafshān: Hafez's barafshān Part 5
tā	to; in order to	تا	deevané shō: Rumi's deevané shō Part 5
tā	as long as, in order to, so that, until	تا	sokhanee chand dar eshgh (A Few Words on Love): Nezami Ganjavi's sokhanee chand dar eshgh (A Few Words on Love) Part 2

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