August 17, 2007

Bee sho oor

If you get the urge to call someone "dumb" in Persian, what words would use?

-- Ablah
-- Aghab moondeh
-- Aghab oftaadeh
-- Aghl-e kol
-- Ahmagh
-- Anishtein (Einstain)
-- Az ghaafele aghab
-- Baalaa khooneh khaalee
-- Beesho-oor
-- Chokh bakhtyar (from Samad Behrangi)
-- Dehaati
-- Divooneh
-- Doe zareesh kajeh
-- Gaav
-- Gooloo Gooloo
-- Goosfand
-- Haapooli
-- Haloo
-- Haparooti
-- Kalleh pook
-- Khar
-- Koreh khar
-- Kheng
-- Khereft
-- Kodan
-- Kos khol
-- Kos mashang
-- Majnoon
-- Mashang, Mashang mirza, Mashang ali
-- Mojassame balaahat
-- Nafahm
-- Nawdoon
-- Olagh
-- Part
-- Sheidaa
-- Shoot
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Winner: Majid Soltani. 100 Afarin!
Also thanks to Mehran Azhar and Zohreh Ghahremani.

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