What “Zendegi” means

Hi! Let’s talk about the second word in “Zan, Zendegi, Azadi” the slogan in current protests againat the regime of Iran.

Zendegi roughly translates into “life”.

زندگی

We can break it into zende + gi

زنده + گی

Zende means alive.

Man zende am.

من زنده ام.

I am alive.

Let’s search the word Zendegi in a search engine. Ok, one of the results is a wikipedia page about the slogan we are talking about!

https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%8C_%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AF%DA%AF%DB%8C%D8%8C_%D8%A2%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C?wprov=sfti1

And here is a song from 80‘s where you will hear Zendegi repeatedly.

https://youtu.be/9I4s1n12FxY

The chorus is: Zendegi ba to cheghad ghashangeh

زندگی باتو چقد قشنگه

Life is so beautiful with you!

Thanks for reading! See you next time