Aya the Existentially Panhandling Ayatoll

This is more along the lines of avoidant Farsi-ing. Sister site Dreamwidth (totally not the nicer sister) took about an hour-and-a-half of my day's toiling and e-defenestrated it. I mean, Firefox, when it isn't freezing, is all too fond of abruptly shutting down...but I'm guessing that LiveJournal, much like its sister, has not the capability of auto-saving content of an entry that is being edited. This is obviously the first time that this has happened to me. Surely I've wanted to stab Firefox in the face, but this is Dreamwidth's doing as well.

It was only an hour-and-a-half's worth of journaling.

An hour-and-a-half's worth that must be repeated--an hour-and-a-half that must be reinvested.


In an attempt to procrastinate aforementioned reinvestment of my time in that specific task, I come bearing Farsian gifts from a dated article on the banning of Al Jazeera in Bahrain:

مَمنُوعیت : prohibition, ban

پَخْش : broadcast, diffusion (+ کَرْدَن = TO broadcast, to diffuse, to air)
شَبَکِه: network
مُقَامَات: officials, authorities
ممَنُوع: prohibited
بِه عِلَت: because, due to
تَخَطِی: violation, infringement
فَرْهَنْگ: culture
اِطِلَاعَات: data, information
بِدُوْنِ : without (with the kasra 'ِ', always(?) followed by a noun)
اِشَارِه: mention, inclusion, hint (+ کَرْدَن = to mention, to hint; +بِه = " " at, to)
جُزْئِیٌَات: details
بِیشْتَر: more, further (بِیشْتَرِین = most)
جُزْئِیٌَاتِ بِیشْتَر: more detail
تَصْمِیْم گِرِفْتَن: to decide
حِرْفِه|یِ: professional (حِرْفِه = profession, occupation)
نیز: also, too
مَحْکُوْم: condemned, convicted, convict, sentence (+ کَرْدَن = TO condemn, TO convict, TO sentence)
اِبْرَاز (تَاسف) کَرْدَن: to express (regret)/to regret (تَاسف is changeable)
خَبْرِنگَارَان: journalists, reporters, correspondents
جِلُوْگِیْرِی کَرْدَن: to prevent, to bar
سَازِمَانِ مللِ متحد: the United Nations

The past two days of Writer's Block questions provided me with a solid reminder of the wherefores of my seldom participation. Derived from the cost of non-participation is the benefit of gained time allotted to lingering in the Tumblr--and occasionally, LiveJournal--posts of others (and mine, hence this post). This is very much needed after having realized that there is still a paucity of (gratuitous) Farsi-English dictionaries that provide the harakat and/or transliteration. A couple do so, but they aren't comprehensive enough. Google Translate suffices, if one has time to go through every vowel permutation possible; Wordchamp Toolbar is very hit-or-miss. Surely Demonoid should be able to deliver.

The Farsi vocabulary is very much needed, so continuing to post more Farsi vocabulary to my journal I shall do--even at the risk of another of my laptop's AC adapter's manic-depressive episodes, each of which lasts sufficiently long enough to send me into an apoplectic fit.

هُشْدَار = warning
برداره = about
اَحْمَدِی نِژَاد = Ahmadinejad (so, it's ژ , and not ج
اِیجَادِ اِخْتِلاَل = interference
هَشْدَار دَادَن = to warn
منع گسترش سلاح های هسته ای = non-proliferation of nuclear weapons
رُوزِ ---شنبه آیَنْدِه = next ___day
آَغَاز بِه کَار کَرْدَن = to get started, to commence?
بِه گُزَارَش خبر گُزَارِی = according to news reports
از ...تبعيت کَرْدَن = to follow, submit (to), abide (by)
بِسْیَارِ = very
از ... اِسْتَقْبَال کَرْدَن = to welcome (something)
اِضَافِه کَرْد = to add
در) خواست... بَرَایِ) = request (I don't know if the در turns it into a participle?)
در) یَافْت ویزا) = (to receive a?) visa
ابراز شُدَن = to express