| learnings, teachings; learned; person of learning (rare, see Dehkhodā) | معارف |
| encyclopedia | دائرة‌المعارف |
| high | بالا |
| higher | بالاتر |
| better | بهتر |
| I think; I consider [myself to be] | می‌دانم |
| the meaning of "cleric" and "person of learning" | معنی «روحانی» و «معارف» |
| although | گرچه = اگرچه |
| that day, that time | آن روز |
| soldier | سرباز |
| thief | دزد |
| soldier-thief, soldier and thief | سربازِ دزد |
| than the soldier-thief even [more] | از سرباز دزد هم |
| more shameful | ننگین‌تر |
| shameful | ننگین |
| understanding [of] | فهمِ |
| understanding of advisability | فهم صلاح |
| goodness, moral soundness, advisability, interest(s), well-being, advisable, expedient | صلاح |
| corruption | فساد |
| his pressures, the pressures he applied, his emphasis | فشارهای او |
| pressure | فشار |
| pressures | فشارها |
| on the clerics (inflected per Arabic) | به روحانیین = به روحانیون = به روحانیان |
| root | ریشه |
| very end, tip, source | بیخ |
| he wanted to rip out the root, uproot | می‌خواست ریشه را ... بکند |
| from the tip of the root, from the source | از بیخ |
| for reforming, in order to reform | برای اصلاح |