Persian / English Dictionary

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Persian (phonetic)	English	Script	Appears In
ō	and	و	payāmé naseem: Hafez's payāmé naseem Part 5
ō	and, or	و	aybé rendān makon: Hafez's aybé rendān makon Part 3
ō	and	و	aybé rendān makon: Hafez's aybé rendān makon Part 4
ō	and	و	aybé rendān makon: Hafez's aybé rendān makon Part 5
ō	and	و	sokhanee chand dar eshgh (A Few Words on Love): Nezami Ganjavi's sokhanee chand dar eshgh (A Few Words on Love) Part 3
ō	and	و	fathe bagh: Forough Farokhzad's fathe bagh Part 2, beshnō een nay: Rumi's beshnō een nay Part 2
ō	and	و	rendee deedam : Omar Khayyam's rendee deedam Part 2
ō bas	and that's it	و بَس	aybé rendān makon: Hafez's aybé rendān makon Part 5
octobre	October	اُکتُبر	More Numbers, and the Months, Days and Seasons
oftādan	to fall	اُفتادَن	Getting Attention
oghāb	eagle	عقاب	fathe bagh: Forough Farokhzad's fathe bagh Part 5
omeedvāram	I hope	اُمیدوارَم	Thanking a Shopowner
oo	he/she/they	او	Review of Unit 2, beshnō een nay: Rumi's beshnō een nay Part 3
(oo) asabānee shod	He/she became angry	(او) عَصَبانی شُد	Compound Verbs
(oo) āshpazee kard	he/she cooked	(او) آشپَزی کَرد	Compound Verbs
(oo) bāzi kard	he/she played	(او) بازی کَرد	Compound Verbs
oo bé donyā oomad	he/she was born	او بِه دُنیا اومَد	Babies
(oo) beeyāré	he/she brings	(او) بیارِه	The Simple Subjunctive
(oo) bendāzé	that he/she throws	(او) بِندازِه	Thanking a Shopowner
(oo) bood	He/she was	(او) بود	The Simple Past Tense