Yes, they both come from the old Persian chop ‘stick, wood’.

When used to give your opinion, as in ‘I think’ or ‘I believe’, they are interchangeable: Fekr konam/Fekr mikonam hanuz xabar-o nashnide...

The subjunctive present 1st person plural is used: Berim restoraan! بریم رستوران ‘Let’s go to the restaurant!’ // In kaar-o nakonim!...

Yes, the origin for both xaandan خواندن ‘to read, to sing’ (conversationally pronounced xundan) and aaxund آخوند ‘preacher, clergy’ is...

This word and also the word bedrud بدرود ‘goodbye’ come from the Proto-Indo-European root *deru- via Avestan. The words deraxt درخت...

This word comes from Arabic to Persian (بلاء). The plural balaayaa بلایا is also used in Persian (formal context). It’s worth mentioning...

We can use delhore daashtan دلهره داشتن , ezteraab daashtan اضطراب داشتن , moztareb budan is مضطرب بودن , or simply negaraan budan نگران...

The meaning of bar- بر (and its variant var- ور ) is ‘up; upward; high; above’ (e.g., bar-daashtanبرداشتن ‘to pick up’, bar-xaastan...

Yes, that’s correct. Foru- فرو (variant of forud فرود ) means ‘down; downward; low’. For example: foru-rixtan فروریختن ‘to collapse’,...

They are verbs that consist of a verbal prefix and a verb. There are only a few of these verbal prefixes used in conversational Persian,...

As a simple verb and for most compound verbs with it, the subjunctive past form is used: Daashtebaash! داشته باش ‘Have it!’ // E’temaad...

- The forms are as follows: Subjunctive present – identical to simple present: daaram دارم // daari داری // dare داره // daarim داریم //...

For the most part, yes, but for prefixal verbs and some compound verbs, ‘mi-’ is used. For example: bar-midaaram برمی‌دارم ‘I pick up’...

Shur شور is a common word to mean ‘too salty’. Namaki نمکی is a more general term and could mean anything that has salt in it. Its parts...

They are synonyms and sometimes interchangeable, but there are differences – as is the case with most synonyms. For example, surat...

Is there an easy trick to tell words of Persian origin? No, there’s not a magic way (I wish there were!), but here are some clues: -...

I checked a few sources and all trace the word back to Pahlavi or Avestan, so it doesn’t seem to be related to Turkish.

Yes, band بند being the present stem of bastan بستن ‘to close’. The root is the Proto-Indo-European *bhendh- ‘to fasten’, also the root...

This sentence, which means ‘Observe cleanliness’, has the following breakdown: nezaafat نظافت ‘cleanliness’ // raa را [direct object...

Yes: nim-garm نیم گرم ‘lukewarm’. A synonym is velarm ولرم. Nim/nimeنیم/نیمه means ‘half’ and can be used as a prefix. Other examples:...