Persian or Farsi Tongue Twisters

Rough Translations

1. The tea-pot with a red flower on it 
2. Six skewers of liver each for six Rials (Iranian unit of money). 
3. The soldier hit the head of the playing soldier. 
4. last night, the night before last night, was a very cold night. 
5. One night, yesterday night there was unrest in the city of Sham (Damascus). The glasses were scared and wet themselves so much that they broke up into 6660 pieces. 
6. Daii Chagheh=Uncle is fat. Chaii Dagheh=Tea is hot 
7. I killed a flea that killed the six-legged flea. 
8. The tops of the feet of the man from Lor are hairy. 
9. Davood (a Persian name) has got a pearl on a gate. Becauses it's singing the gate is singing too. 
10. Shekh Shamsadin was a famous sheikh. 
11. I killed the flea that killed the six-legged flea. I broke Shahla's (girl's name) wine bottle. 
12. Little caraway is being poured from under the table. 
13. Dented teapot with red flowers 
14. Yogurt soda with gas, gas with yogurt soda. 
15. Sheikh Saadi (the famous Persian poet) was a tough man. 
16. Ten blind and deaf people and nine male baboons won’t fit in the gate of the female part (andarun) of the palace in Andar (a district in Afganistan). 
 


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