Persian / English Dictionary

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Persian (phonetic)	English	Script	Appears In
zarchoobé	turmeric	زَردچوبِه	Persian Food
zard	yellow	زَرد	How to Describe Things (Includes List of All the Colors), Colors (Vocabulary Sprint)
zardeeyé man az tō, sorkheeyé tō az man	my yellowness to you, your redness to me	زَردی مَن اَز تو، سُرخیِ تو اَز مَن	Nowruz (Vocabulary Sprint)
zarf shoowee	kitchen sink	ظَرف شویی	House / Home (Vocabulary Sprint)
zāyeedan	to give birth	زاییدن	Babies
zāyemān	giving birth	زایمان	Babies
zāyeshgāh	the place of giving birth	زایشگاه	Babies
zé	from	زِ	payāmé naseem: Hafez's payāmé naseem Part 2
zé	of	زِ	khosh bāsh: Omar Khayyam's khosh bāsh Part 2
zé	from, by, than, of	زِ	barafshān: Hafez's barafshān Part 5
z'é	from, of	زِ	shād zee: Rudaki's shād zee Part 2
z'é āmadé	of the future	زِ آمَدِه	shād zee: Rudaki's shād zee Part 2
zee	live!	زی	shād zee: Rudaki's shād zee Part 2
zeebā	beautiful	زیبا	How to Talk About Love and Friendship
zeeré	under	زیرِ	Prepositions
zeerzameen	basement	زیر زَمین	House / Home (Vocabulary Sprint)
zé kooyé yār	from the direction of the lover	زِ کویِ یار	payāmé naseem: Hafez's payāmé naseem Part 2
zemestoon	winter	زِمِستان	Time and Date (Vocabulary Sprint), More Numbers, and the Months, Days and Seasons
zendegee	life	زِندِگی	shād zee: Rudaki's shād zee Part 2
zendegee	life		dar golestané: Sohrab Sepehri's dar golestané Part 2, fathe bagh: Forough Farokhzad's fathe bagh Part 5