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