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From: aref@Tehran.Stanford.EDU (Modda'iyeh har hAzer va Vakileh har ghAyeb)
Subject: SCI KabAb khori, manzeleh rAmin was Re: Haji's KABOB KOBIDE
Organization: sAzmAneh jalbeh sayyAhAn 
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:58:10 GMT

In article <1993Jan12.103131.25890@ugle.unit.no> NTH, Dep. Inorganic Chemistry,
7034,Trondheim,Norway (Ramin G. Shamsili) writes:

>( By the way, keBab is best after some hours of skiing in the mountains and 
>woods; All the ahAli are invited (to Norway) for skiing + kebAb + tea !!)
>
> ramin... 

rAmin joon, az in tArofhA nakon keh yek vaght didi illeh moghol yek
SCI event barAt dorost kardan-o hAlA khar birAro bAghAli bAr kon. :-)

Although all the ahAli have standing invitations to the 
San Francisco Bay Area (San Fran-siko in Iowan :-), the thought of
having an SCI event in Norway and having several sikhs (Official
SI unit for kabAb measurement) of rAmin's kabAb (with or without nakh -
although kAreh mA az nakh gozashteh va be sim boksol resideh :-)
is very appealing. hAji and shahrokh can bring their sikhs and
manghals as well so they can pollute Norwegian air-space. We have
enough smog here. :-) For dessert, we can have a cup or two of amoo's
najmeh-prescribed GGZ and some noon khAmeii (who is the SCI noon-
khAmeii goddess??). For entertainment we can bring Satan from Houston,
TX with us, although Norway might just be a tad bit, itsy bitsy too
chilly for him (AhAy peder segA, I failed my Fortren class and now
I am freezing my tail off :-)

Just a vacating thought....

(348 days left till next Christmas and vacation time :-(

Asghar AghA



Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: zamie@zamiepcSanDiego.NCR.com (Zamie Mehraz)
Subject: Re: A few pure Persian words from Shah-Nama
Reply-To: zamie@zamiepcSanDiego.NCR.com (Zamie Mehraz)
Organization: NCR Engineering and Manufacturing, San Diego, CA
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:46:17 GMT


Ba Drood Dobareh:

Here is a few more.  Hope we continue talking about these topics more.


Pay-Dari = to resist     
Ex: Ma Bayad Ta Akharin Nafas Dar Barabar Badi Pay-Dari Konim.
(synonym word:  "Moghavamat")

Padidar = visible        
Ex: Nagahan, Yek Oghab Ziba Az Posht Kooh Padidar Shod.
(synonym words:   "Paydayesh", "Namayan")

Pazho-Handeh = investigator, researcher      
Ex: Fedawsi Neshan Dad Keh Yek Pazho-Handeh Khoob Cheghadr Sabr va
Hoseleh Bayad Dashteh Bashad.
(synonym words: "Mohaghegh")

Chereh-Dast = skillful
Ex: Parsian Tir-Andazan basiar Chereh-Dasti Boodand.
(synonym words:  "Zebar-Dast", "Maher")

Baak = fear
Ex: Ensaan Az Dorost-Kari Nabayad Baaki Dashteh Bashad.



Khoda Neghah Dar

Zamie
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Subject: Re; Persian Words From ShAh-nAmeh [sci-anon-poster]
Date: 10 Jan 1993 19:19:59 GMT
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zamie@zamiepcSanDiego.NCR.com (Zamie Mehraz) writes:

>Shahram Doost Gerami:
>    ...
>My real name is "Zamiad" (Zamyad).  Since birth it was a difficult name
>    ...
>Shahram Jan, I started. Now it is your turn.

ZAmie jAn:

For the moment I can think of the following names:

1)emitis    = gol-e banafsheh    (hovakhshatrah's daughter)

2)behtis    = gol-e sorkh        (  "   "   "   "  son)

3)mahtis    = mAh-gol, moon flower   (my cousin)

I suggested to my aunt to name her second daughter "mahtis" instead of
"mAhtis" or "mAh-gol", because she wanted a name to match her first daughter's
name, emitis. She also named her son "behtis".

"tis" is an old Persian word for flower or blossom(shokoofeh/shekoofeh).
Those who are familiar with mAzandarAni and gilAni dialogues may know that
in some of their folk songs they use "titi" when they want to refer to 
blossom. "titi" must have its "reesheh" in "tis".

The following two names, which are my favorite, were not in the list:

4 & 5) AbrAdAt & pAnte-A    (husband and wife who sacrificed their lives for)
                            (koorosh in combat)

Please correct me if I am wrong in any of the above.

>Take Care

khodA negahdAr

>Zamie

ShahrAm 

P.S. Was the name "hooshyAr" in that list?









 
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From: zamie@zamiepcSanDiego.NCR.com (Zamie Mehraz)
Subject: Re: A few pure Persian words from Shah-Nama
Reply-To: zamie@zamiepcSanDiego.NCR.com (Zamie Mehraz)
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:57:55 GMT


Ba Drood:

Here is a few pure Farsi word from Shah-Nama Ferdawsi.  We might to
continue this session if our friends will be kind enough to paticipate.

Kish = religion                 Ex: Kish Shoma Chist?

Ravan = soul                    Ex: Ravan Eshan Pak Bashad.

Hamgam = companion              Ex: Yek Zan o Shohar bayad Hamisheh
Saaiy Konnand Hamgam                                          Yekdegar Bashand.
Hamraz = confident              Ex: (above example with " Hamgam va Hamraz")

Nik = good			Ex: Niki va Porsesh!

Niaz = need                     Ex: Man Beh Yek Docharkheyeh Korsi Niaz Daram.

Naghmeh = tune                  Ex: Bamdad Emroz Naghmeh Parandegan
Shekoh Tazeh dar man beh                                      Vojod
Avardeh Bood.
Nasib = portion                 Ex: Nasib Padar Shirin az Ein Peyvand,
Khoshbakhti Dokhtarash                                     bood.
Garmabeh = bath                 Ex: Yadeton Ma-Ayad Garmabeh hayeh Irano.

Kin-Tozi = revengefullness      Ex: Doost Man hanooz Ehsas Kin-Tozi
Nesbat beh Hamsayeh khod                                      Darad.


Khoda Neghah Dar


Zamie
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: bsadeghi@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Behzad Sadeghi)
Subject: Re: AI: death penalty news - Dec 92
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 14:07:50 GMT

In article <9301060251.AA04446@apollo3.ntt.jp> farzin@apollo3.ntt.jp (Farzin Mokhtarian) writes:

>There are still some problems:
>   
>a. It is not clear to me that "announced" refers to "official" announcements
>   and not other sources.
>   (I assume you mean government announcements; MKO also has "official"
>   announcements)
>                    
>b. Even if "announced" refers to government announcements, the word
>   "announce" is used for the year 1989 only but not any other years.
>          
>c. Although the title of the report is "Death penalty news: Dec 1992",
>   the figures given start in 1989 but no figure is given for 1992
>   except for the 17 executed on Oct. 18, 1992. Why is that?
>   
>d. What is the grounds for the claim that "the total figure in each year
>   is expected to be considerably higher"?  Clearly it can not be
>   government announcements.
>                        
> - Farzin
>             

farzin jan, to answer your questions, i must admit that hossein
was totally wrong, and what he quoted earlier was another ploy by
the mojahedeen to discredit the human rights record of the regime.
actually, AI chose iran as the first country in the world to respect
all aspects of human rights and called on other countries to use the
iranian approach as a guide. 

there you go, happy now?

behzad

Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: zamie@zamiepcSanDiego.NCR.com (Zamie Mehraz)
Subject: Re: Hajji Baba Ispahani, the novel
Reply-To: zamie@zamiepcSanDiego.NCR.com (Zamie Mehraz)
Organization: NCR Engineering and Manufacturing, San Diego, CA
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:19:00 GMT


On the eve of the Constitutional Revolution, two books appeared in
Persian thatgreatly influenced the coming events, the awakening of the
people, and the literary revival.  These were the" SiyahatNam-yi Ibrahim
Beg" and the Persian versionof James Morier's remarkable novel, "The
Adventure of Hajji Baba of Ispahan".

This picturesque and picaresque novel by Morier has been a source of
misapprehension and some speculation ever since it first appearedin
England in 1824.  Thisis mainly due to the d
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: mack@isl.Stanford.EDU (mack)
Subject: takhti
Organization: Stanford University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 21:57:51 GMT



Hi,

Today, Day, 17th, 1371 (Jan. 7, 93) marks the 25th (?) anniversary of
death of GholAmrezA Takhti. He was arguably the best wrestler of his
time. At the time, it was reported that he had commited suicide, but
rumors were that he was killed by a fatal injection. Perhaps some of
our oldtimers [(c) Mack, 92] can fill us in with a brief history on
Takhti and his accomplishments.

    --mack
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian,soc.culture.afghanistan
From: Babak Sehari
Subject: MORE ROCKETS RAIN ON KABUL, IRAN CALLS FOR PEACE 
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 03:05:56 GMT



 MORE ROCKETS RAIN ON KABUL, IRAN CALLS FOR PEACE 
    KABUL, Jan 7, Reuter - Government opponents slammed rockets into the Afghan
capital of Kabul on Thursday for the second day running, wounding eight people
and provoking a threat from the Defence Ministry to hit back. 
    A senior Iranian official visiting Kabul appealed to rival mujahideen
groups to make peace with each other. 
    Nine rockets landed around the Defence Ministry building, which was not
hit, government officials said. 
    One rocket left a large crater outside the gate of the ministry's
three-storey building. Defence Minister Ahmad Shah Masood was not in the
building at the time, officials said. 
    They blamed the attack on the Hezb-i-Islami party of radical mujahideen
leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, one of several groups opposing the election by a
controversial assembly of Burhanuddin Rabbani as head of state for the next two
years. 
    ``Our first priority is to negotiate,'' a Defence Ministry spokesman said.
``But our responsibility is to defend the people and we will use military
action if necessary.'' 
    The officials also blamed Hezb for a rocket attack targeted on areas near
the Interior Ministry on Wednesday, in which one person was killed and 10 were
wounded. 
    Iran's deputy foreign minister Alaeddin Borujerdi, who is in Kabul, called
on the Afghan groups to end their fighting. 
    ``Iran is very upset by this fighting,'' he said in an interview. ``They
must think about innocent people.'' 
    The Hezb has denied a rocket attack on Kabul at the weekend which
government officials said killed at least 12 people. 
 REUTER RA HS MN
From: sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Iraq's U.N. Ambassador Says Iraq Not Challenging U.S.
Date: 4 Jan 93 23:58:35 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa.
Originator: sehari@bart.ecss.iastate.edu

12/29 (DJ) Iraq's U.N. Ambassador Says Iraq Not Challenging U.S.

    UNITED NATIONS -AP- Iraq's U.N. ambassador said today his country
wants to avoid a military confrontation with the U.S. and does not plan
to complain to the Security Council about the downing of an Iraqi
warplane.
    U.S. officials said U.S. warplanes shot down the MiG-25 jet Sunday
when it made a menacing move after crossing into a ''no-fly'' zone over
southern Iraq imposed by Washington and its allies in August to protect
Shiite Muslim rebels. Ambassador Nizar Hamdoon denied in an interview
with The Associated Press that the Iraqi pilot intended to attack the
U.S. planes.
    Officials in Baghdad have vowed to retaliate for the downing of the
jet.
    The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk headed toward the Persian Gulf
today to reinforce U.S. forces there.
    Iraqi warplanes reportedly penetrated the no-fly zone again
yesterday but turned back after being intercepted by U.S. planes.
    Hamdoon, a former ambassador in Washington, said he doubted the
Iraqi flights were meant to be provocative and said the whole issue was
''blown out of proportion.''
    Hamdoon denied that Iraq was testing U.S. resolve as the departing
Bush administration focused on Somalia and Yugoslavia.
    Hamdoon said his government hoped the incoming Clinton
administration would have an open mind about Iraq and its historic role
as a counterweight to Iranian influence in the region.
     4:53 PM
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From: zamie@zamiepcSanDiego.NCR.com (Zamie Mehraz)
Subject: Re: Re; Persian Words From ShAh-nAmeh [sci-anon-poster]
Reply-To: zamie@zamiepcSanDiego.NCR.com (Zamie Mehraz)
Organization: NCR Engineering and Manufacturing, San Diego, CA
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:20:18 GMT

Well, I have had some technical difficulties. Sorry.


>1)emitis    = gol-e banafsheh    (hovakhshatrah's daughter)

2)behtis    = gol-e sorkh        (  "   "   "   "  son)

>"tis" is an old Persian word for flower or blossom(shokoofeh/shekoofeh).
>Those who are familiar with mAzandarAni and gilAni dialogues may know that
>in some of their folk songs they use "titi" when they want to refer to 
>blossom. "titi" must have its "reesheh" in "tis".

Shahram Jan:

You are refering to Hovakhshatrah, Cyrus's Grand Father.  Did he have
more daugthers and sons beside Mandana and perhaps do you know their
role in the Medes kingdom.  


>The following two names, which are my favorite, were not in the list:

>4 & 5) AbrAdAt & pAnte-A    (husband and wife who sacrificed their lives for)
>                            (koorosh in combat)

Pante-A is also (I have heard) Aryo-Barzan's sister name who was
fighting against Alexander, the Great next to his brother to stop him
against conquering Persia about 2300 years ago.  I have never heard
about the two above characters.  Are they the same or perhaps you can
enlighten me on this issue please.

Your effort will be greatly appreciated.

An interesting short story.  A few years ago, I met a family whose last
name was "Barzan".  They had only a son whose name was "Aryo".  Mrs.
Barzan was pragnent at the time and she was going to have a daugther. 
She was telling me that she is trying to find out that if Pante-A was
Aryo Barzan's sister name, name her daughter after her.

Khoda Negah dar

Zamie
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian,soc.culture.afghanistan
From: Babak Sehari
Subject: FORMER, AFGHANI BORN, IRANIAN MP TO GO ON TRIAL FOR KILLING MAN 
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 21:26:32 GMT



 FORMER IRANIAN MP TO GO ON TRIAL FOR KILLING MAN 
    NICOSIA, Jan 6, Reuter - A former Iranian parliament deputy will go on
trial next month for killing a man during a partridge hunt, the first member of
the country's Islamic elite to be tried for a major common crime. 
    The Iranian news agency IRNA quoted a judicial source as saying on
Wednesday that Jalaleddin Farsi's trial would open at the criminal court in
Karaj, 40 km (25 miles) west of Tehran, on February 20. 
    He is accused of shooting dead Sadeq Rezakhani, a villager, after they
quarrelled when Farsi was hunting partridge in the Taleqan mountains near Karaj
in September, IRNA said. 
    Farsi was one of about 30 members of the central council of the Islamic
Republic Party which became the dominant political force in the years after the
1979 Islamic revolution. 
    Other members included the present supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
and President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. 
    Farsi was named the party's candidate in the first presidential polls in
1980, but an election committee disqualified him because he was born in a state
, Afghanistan, which is not currently part of current Iran.
    He was elected to parliament twice and served on senior cultural
policy-making bodies. 
    IRNA said Farsi was under ``temporary arrest'' in a Karaj jail but did not
make clear if he was charged with murder or manslaughter. 
    Under Iran's Islamic penal code, a convicted murderer can be executed if
relatives of the victim demand it. But they can only demand payment of
``blood-money'' in case of manslaughter. 
    Some newspapers voiced concern after the killing that Farsi might use his
influence to escape punishment. 
 REUTER MZ JP
From: >>>>>> Anonymous
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Nice Try! (Was Re; Persian Words From ShAh-nAmeh) [sci-anon-poster]
Date: 10 Jan 1993 07:00:54 GMT
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sepehr@falstaff.dev.cdx.mot.com (Sepehr Mehranbanzad) writes:
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>In article <lkpausINNe2n@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> >>>>>> Anonymous writes:
>>
>>	[ the rest of the article deleted ]
>>
>>Few months after the rev... when I was a junior at National University
>						^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>Highscool of Iran ( woops! my identity!), our Modern Mathematics teacher,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>Salam,

aleike salAm, gol-e golAb, meeveye annAb,

>I used to go to that school long time ago. 

Me too.

>I was wondering whom you might be.

You're not the only one honey.

>It is always nice to chat with an old school mate.

It really is. Who do you want to chat about? Mr. Arvin or Mrs. Amir-hAjebi?

>Sepehr Mehrabanzad			email:sepehr@merlin.dev.cdx.mot.com

Why is your last name here different from the one in the header? spend a few
seconds to correct it.

>Motorola/Codex				vmail: (617) 821-7523

You forgot the "regards" part of your closing statement.

ShahrAm



 
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From: Babak Sehari
Subject: IRAN INTRODUCES AIDS TESTS FOR FOREIGN RESIDENTS 
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 21:06:25 GMT

----

 IRAN INTRODUCES AIDS TESTS FOR FOREIGN RESIDENTS 
    NICOSIA, Dec 27, Reuter - Iran said on Sunday it was introducing mandatory
AIDS tests for foreigners wishing to stay in the Islamic republic for more than
three months. 
    The Iranian news agency IRNA said Abdel Hamid Emam, an official from a
state anti-AIDS committee, announced the decision in a speech to a seminar on
the disease. 
    He appealed to the Iranian media to help educate people about the disease,
which attacks the body's immune system, and ways of protecting themselves. 
    IRNA said the AIDS test for foreigners was part of measures ``to keep out
AIDS-infected people from entering Iran.'' 
 REUTER DYA TG 

Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: s5ubxh@fnma.COM (Behrooz Hadavi)
Subject: Re: HELP! Need To Send Urgent Letter To Tehran
Reply-To: s5ubxh@fnma.COM
Organization: Fannie Mae
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:50:20 GMT

Try sending it via FEDEX or DHL.  They all guarantee 2-3 day delivery.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: zamie@zamiepcSanDiego.NCR.com (Zamie Mehraz)
Subject: Re: A few pure Persian words from Shah-Nama
Reply-To: zamie@zamiepcSanDiego.NCR.com (Zamie Mehraz)
Organization: NCR Engineering and Manufacturing, San Diego, CA
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:57:56 GMT


>it depends on what your definition of pure is. ;-)

>but seriously, i think it's that time of the year for our ahaalee
>to start the boring subject of listing all the words that have a
>"pure persian" root.

>khodaa be daad berese,

>behzad

Aghayeh Bahzad Khan:

I don't know what to say about what you said!  If you may want to
protest about this issue, I will suggest first attack people who keep
attacking each other for nothing, insulting each other and keep bringing
non-sense political issues.

I personally think this is a cultural news line.  Talking about our
language and learning words from Shah-nama is practically cultural (period!).

However, my intension from this subject was to talk a little about
Shah-Nama Ferdawsi.  I hope you can relate to this and perhaps really
know what is a "national pride" (which I am sure you do) that is missing
in many of us here far away from our soil.  Remember "educating our
people is the best way to serve our people", and personally I believe
that all of our disasters today or in the past was due this fact.


With all the respect and sincerity

Zamie
From: minhaszt@ucbeh.san.uc.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: A few pure Persian words from Shah-Nama
Date: 10 Jan 93 00:05:11 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati

you know i was thinking about this shah-namah subject matter and the thought
just hit my head. zamie mentioned the word naghmeh, i have a cousin named
naghmeh (she pronounces it naghmah) in montreal and a friend named naghmeh as 
well.... coincindence? i think not!

zafar
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: bsadeghi@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Behzad Sadeghi)
Subject: Re: A few pure Persian words from Shah-Nama
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 14:25:23 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.032010.5783@athena.mit.edu> nsohrabi@athena.mit.edu (Naghmeh Sohrabi) writes:
>>Thank you for your point Zafar.  Nasib is probably Arabic, I think you
>>are right on that.  It is in the same waight as "Faiel", therefore it is
>>Arabic.
>>
>>However, Naghmeh should be pure Persian.  It is a noun and in many poems
>>you might encounter with this word.  Also many Iranian girls have this name.  
>
>
>Dear Zamie,
>
>Naghmeh is an Arabic word. 
>As for many "Iranian girls" having this name, well, many Iranian boys are
>named Asghar...is that "Pure Persian" too?
                ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^
it depends on what your definition of pure is. ;-)

but seriously, i think it's that time of the year for our ahaalee
to start the boring subject of listing all the words that have a
"pure persian" root.

khodaa be daad berese,

>
>naghmeh

behzad
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