Provocative Clothing!
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khāhar-e gerārmi: |
خواهر گرامی: |
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Respected Sister: |
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az pushidan-e har gune lebās-e
mohayej khod-dāri konid |
از پوشیدن هر گونه لباسِ مهیج
خودداری کنید |
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From the wearing of any kind of provocative clothing
restrain yourself. (This circumlocution, "please refrain
from" with "khod-dāri" is a very common way of avoiding the
rather harsh negative imperative, "don't!") |
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tā kamtar mawrad-e aziyyat-o āzār-e
mardān-e cheshm-nā-pāk qarār girid. |
تا کمتر مورد اذیّت و آزار مردان چشم
ناپاک قرار گیرید. |
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so that you be subject to less teasing and botheration by
men of unclean eye. (The slash/dot after the word girid was
originally a way calligraphers would blot their ink and
appeared at the beginning of the sentence, now it survives
mainly as ornamentation. See it as the logo for the
Dāneshgāh-e Honar in
Tehran.) |
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majma`-e tejāri-ye Kādus-e 2 |
مجمع تجاری کادوسِ ۲ |
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Commercial Complex of Kādus 2. (Kādus 2 is the name of a
neighborhood, for information on the Kādusi, a people
mentioned by Pliny as inhabiting the area of Gilān, see the
Dehkhodā dictionary, "kādus" or
iranica.com, "gilān".) |
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