Transportation: نقل

Some vocabulary to help you get around. I’m trying something a little different here in that, when dealing with cognates or near-cognates, I’m going to give you the pronunciation rather than the English transliteration, which you’ll probably never need.

• car: ماشین (māshīn), اتومبیل (“automobile”)
• truck: کامیون (kāmyūn), meaning something capable of carrying freight
  
• motorcycle: موتورسیکلت (“motorcyclet”)
  
• bus: اتوبوس (“autobus”)
  
• train: قطار (qiṭār)
  
• plane: هواپیما (havāpaymā)
  
• boat/ship/ferry: کشتی (kishtī)
• bicycle: دو چرخه (dū charkhah), literally “two-wheeler”
  
• taxi: تاكسی (“taxi”)
  
• walking (verb): راه رفتن (rāh raftan)
  • “a walk”: راهروی (rāh-rūy)
    
• running (verb): دویدن (davīdan)

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