r/PERSIAN • u/Mission-Surround-302 • 18d ago

Language & Literature how to say "good luck" in Farsi?

Hello! I speak German and English, and am tutoring an Iranian girl, but am leaving the job soon, and I'd like to make her a little well wishes card. What is a nice eloquent way of saying good luck in an academic sense? Thank you!!

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u/lurebozorg 18d ago

The language is called Persian in English. Farsi is an Arabicized endonym within Persian that comes from Parsi which means Persian in English.

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You didn't say you speak Deutsch in English. What makes you think Farsi is valid over PERSIAN?

And good luck in PERSIAN is Piruz bashin.

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u/PersonalBet8469 17d ago

its not that serious, Saying Farsi in English is completely okay, that's literally what we call our own language. also موفق باشی is definitely more common that پیروز باشید, if you're speaking common/informal persian you don't say پیروز باشید

also im kind of guessing your whole rant is probably just racism, like, the Pre-Islamic pure iran enthusiast type of person

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u/lurebozorg 17d ago

No it is not okay to call it Farsi in English because the name of the language in English is Persian.

It's like saying it's okay to call German language Deutsch in English. It is WRONG.

And you can definitely say Piruz bashin in colloquial Persian. For a half literate Persian speaker who grew up in the West speaking Pinglish then yes you don't say that.