Another Birth -- Flashcards -- Persian to English

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تولّد

birth

تولّدی دیگر = تولّد دیگری

another birth, a second birth, another kind of birth, a rebirth

آیه

sign; sacred verse, line of the Qorān (Koran) (the Qurān is in prose, not poetry)

تاریکیست = تاریکی است

is dark

ترا = تو را

you + direct object

ابدی

eternal, having no end

شگُفتن = شکُفتن

to blossom, to bloom, blossoming, blooming

ترا آه کشیدم

I sighed you, I breathed you into existence with my "Ah"

ترا به درخت . . . پیوند زدم

I grafted you to tree (gardener's jargon)

زنبیل

basket

زنبیلی

a basket

افروختن سیگار

to light a cigarette, the lighting up of a cigarette

رخوتناک

languid, listless, euphoric, narcotic

هم‌آغوشی

copulation, love-making (euphenism)

گیج

wandering, dizzy, confused, giddy, hazy, astray

رهگذر

passer-by, pedestrian

مسدود

closed, obstructed, demarcated, sealed off, dammed up

نی‌نی

pupil(s) of eyes

ویران می‌سازد

it ruins, destroys

ادراک

realization, cognizance, perception, impression, uptake, understanding

دریافت

comprehension, recept, perception, perceiving

ظلمت

darkness

به اندازهٔ

to the size of, on the order of, as big as, worth

خوشبختی

happiness, good fortune

زوال

decline, decay

نهال

sapling

باغچه

flower-bed

سهم

lot, fate, portion

متروک‌

abandoned

غربت

being in a foreign land, being away from home, exile

واصل گشتن = واصل شدن

to be joined

حزن‌آلود

sorrowful, sad

می‌کارم

I plant, I sow

پرستو

swallow

گودی

hollow, groove, valley, lacuna, dent

گوشواری

an earring, some earrings

همزاد

twin, born at the same time

کوکب

dahlia

موهای درهم

disheveled hair

حجم

content, mass, volume, bulk

آبستن کردن

to impregnate, to make pregnant

از تصویری آگاه

aware of a picture, informed of an image

مهمانی

party, celebration, feast

بدینسان‌ست = به این سان است

in this way, thus

صیّاد

hunter, fisherman

حقیر

meek, humble, small

گودال

pit, ditch, pothole

مروارید

pearl

صید نخواهد کرد

will not hunt, will not hunt for

نی لبک

flute

می‌نوازد

he, she, it plays (instrument)