шохоб: tributary
The Vakhsh is the biggest tributary of the Amu Darya river.
Нили Сафед дар наздикии шаҳри Хартум бо шохоби калонтарин – Нили Кабуд – пайваст мегардад.
The White Nile joins with its largest tributary, the Blue Nile, near Khartoum.
Resources for learning the Tajik language
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Synonyms: мамлакат, кишвар
сарзамини бегона: foreign land
сарзамини бостонӣ: ancient land
сарзамини тоҷикон: land of the Tajik people
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Synonym: музей
осорхонаи таърихӣ: history museum
осорхонаи фарҳангӣ: cultural museum
осорхонаи миллии Тоҷикистон: national museum of Tajikistan
осорхонаи миллии бостоншиносӣ: national museum of archaeology
In the second sentence, notice that the word театр doesn’t have the plural ending. In Tajik, when you have a list of plurals the plural ending (ҳо) only has to be on the last item in the list.
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In Tajikistan many people still use the Russian word for airport, аэропорт, instead of the Tajik word. It is good to know both.
You can read more about the closing of Ataturk airport here, Фурудгоҳи «Отатурк», where you can also find today’s second sentence.
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Synonym: тайёра
In Tajikistan many people still use the Russian word for aeroplane, самолёт, instead of the Tajik word.
ҳавопаймоӣ: flight, flying
мактаби ҳавопаймоӣ: flight school
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кура: sphere
шакл: shape
Other compound words can be formed with шакл. Here are a couple of examples.
бодомшакл: almond-shaped
ситорашакл: star-shaped
Here is a short (4 minute) video asking whether the earth is round or flat. The Tajik is clear and not too difficult to understand. Замини мо курашакл нест?!
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якдигарӣ: for one another; mutual
муҳаббатӣ якдигарӣ: mutual love, love for one another
якдигарфаҳмӣ: mutual agreement and understanding
паси якдигар омадан: to come one after another (one by one)
нисбат ба якдигар: compared to one another
аҳволи якдигарро пурсидан: to ask about each other (when greeting)
ба якдигар нигоҳ кардан: to look at one another
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Synonym: дигаргуншаванда
Antonym: тағйирнаёбанда (unchangeable, immutable)
тағйир: change
ёбанда – from the verb ёфтан, to find
тағйир ёфтан: to change
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пирях = пир (old) + ях (ice)
You can read more about the Fedchenko glacier on Tajik wikipedia: Пиряхи Федченко
See other Word of the Day geography words here: Word a Day – Tag: geography
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Opposite – хурдҷусса: small-bodied
Synonym: бузургҷусса
ҷусса: body
калон: big, large