Iranian wine
I happen to enjoy wine, so let's talk about Iranian wine, or the lack of it. The place of Shirazi, I guess that must be the wine capital of Iran, ofcourse now its probably forbidden to make it...
But it is a sort of wine that is called Shiraz. Oh, I like to sit and drink it on summer nights and think about life. Then I drink too much and get moody and do things I regret...
I googled the internet and found that alcohol in farsi are:
mashrubate alkoli
Is that really true? The first word have its obvious associations!
Then:
sharab
Read it out loud, it sound like somekind of crab...
The word for drinking seems to be:
xorb
That is a cool verb!
Search from various English teachers...
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yes it is right there exist brand of wine with the name Shiraz,and as my friend mentioned its the name of city in Iran.I am from Shiraz ,Shiraz has a lot of lovely things,one is its wine.
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wow, beautifully written!! as an Iranian never thought of the word sharab that much...and let me tell you sharab has a poetic sound;for me when i hear the word I imagine a persian garden, full of beautiful trees with full moon in the sky and a person enjoys his life by drinking a red substance which must be sharab!!!That's really what I sense from hearing the word sharab but well, as some one who is in stage of learning farsi it sounds like crab...wow!!! I think Farsi is more romantic than that but I like your writing any way;)
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as jamjam said Shiraz is the name of a city, capital of Fars (a state in Iran) but yes what u wanted to say is wine of shiraz which we call it "sharab e shiraz" and it was very famous till Iran's revolution in 1978. Shirazi people and specially their jewishes, when they gave birth to a son used to make wine from grapes and pour it in special big bottles, and burry those bottles and use them only in the marriage of the son. :)
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we don't have any kind of wine which is called "shiraz"!!! shiraz is a city in Iran :D but there are lots of poets from that city who have used that word in their poems. "baadeh" is the word they have used and this is called as the Iranian wine.
drinking wine is banned in Iran because it is banned in Islam.
we mostly use "sharab" in speaking and "mashroobate alcholi" as a more formal word mostly in writing and news. ;)
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