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Persian (phonetic)	English	Script	Appears In
ba’ad	after	بَعد	More about Daily Routines
bābā	dad	بابا	How to Talk More About Your Family, and How to Count to Ten
bābāyé tō	your dad (informal)	بابایِ تو	How to Talk More About Your Family, and How to Count to Ten
baché	child	بچه	Babies
bā cherāgh ō āb ō āyeené	with the light and water and mirror	با چراغ و آب و آینه	fathe bagh: Forough Farokhzad's fathe bagh Part 2
bad	bad	بَد	payāmé naseem: Hafez's payāmé naseem Part 6
bad	bad	بَد	beshnō een nay: Rumi's beshnō een nay Part 4
bād	wind	باد	payāmé naseem: Hafez's payāmé naseem Part 2
bād	wind	باد	shād zee: Rudaki's shād zee Part 2
bad akhlāgh	bad attitude	بَد اَخلاق	Emotion (Vocabulary Sprint)
badan	body	بدن	How to Talk About Feeling Under the Weather and Pain, and Parts of the Body
badan zang meezanam	I'll call later.	بَعداً زَنگ می‌زَنَم	The Etiquette for Talking on the Phone
bādé	wine	بادِه	khosh bāsh: Omar Khayyam's khosh bāsh Part 2
badhālān	bad state of being	بَدحالان	beshnō een nay: Rumi's beshnō een nay Part 4
badmazé	bad tasting	بَدمَزِه	The Concept of "ezāfé"
badmeenton	badminton		Sports (Vocabulary Sprint)
bad neestam	I’m not bad	بَد نیستَم	How to Greet People and Ask How They're Doing
bahār	spring	بَهار	More Numbers, and the Months, Days and Seasons, Time and Date (Vocabulary Sprint)
bahār bahār bahāré	It’s spring, spring, spring	بهار بهار بهاره	meegan ké jangé jangé: Monir Taha's meegan ké jangé jangé Intro
bahār bahār bahāré	It’s spring, spring, spring	بهار بهار بهاره	meegan ké jangé jangé: Monir Taha's meegan ké jangé jangé Intro

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