Digital Dictionaries of South Asia
A Comprehensive Persian-English dictionary, including the Arabic words and phrases to be met with in Persian literature.
  

   شش دره shash-dara , A chess-board; a die; a point of the table at the game of nard, from which one cannot extricate one's self.
   شش دری shash-darī , A house with six doors; the world.
   شش روز کون shash rozi kaun , The six days of creation.
   ش روزن shash rauzan , The six planets; the world; a living creature.
   ششساله shash-sāla , Six years old.
   شش سری shash-sarī , Pure gold.
   شش سو shash-sū , Above and below, before and behind, right and left; a hexagon; six-sided.
   ششصد shash ṣad , Six hundred.
   a شش ضرب shash ẓarb, شش ضربه shash ẓarba , Sixes at dice; stakes at dice which are swept off at a throw; — shash ẓarbi natījaʼi ḵẖūb, Six kinds of good things: a gem, gold, musk, sugar, honey, fruit of different sorts.
   a شش طاق shash-t̤āq , A kind of royal tent.
   a شش طرف shash t̤araf , Six sides, i.e. east, west, north, south, above, beneath.
   a شش عروس shash ʻurūs , The six planets (see شش بانو).
   a ششعلم shash-ʻalam , A kind of smooth carpet.
   شش فنج shash-fanj , Crockery for children to play with (comp. شش خنج).
   ششقاقل shashqāqil, shashqāqul , Root of an Indian tree; the wild carrot.
   ششك shushk , Excrement of the eye.
   شش كانج shash-kānaj , A circular tent.
   ششگوشه shash-gosha , A hexagon.
   ششم shashum , Sixth.
   ششم زمین shashum zamīn , The sixth climate.
   شش مسکن shash-maskin , An oyster-shell with its contents; a gold-mine; a fruit-bearing tree; a shrub with manna upon it.
   ششمی shashumī, ششمین shashumīn , Sixth.
   A شش لوله shash-lūla , Six-chambered (revolver, m.c.).
   شش نتیجه خوب shash natījaʼi ḵẖūb , The six excellent substances: jewels, gold, musk, sugar, honey, and sweet fruits.
   شش و پنج shash u panj , (sixes and fives) Confusion, perplexity; dice.
   شش و پنج بازی shash-u-panj-bāzī , Fraud, treachery.
   شش و پنج زنان shash-u-panj-zanān , Dice-players; perfect, pure; one who loses his all at play.
   ششه shasha, شش یندان shash yandān , Six days of the month Shauwāl, on which Muhammadans keep fast.
   شش یك shash-yak , A sixth.
   ششی shushī , Referring to the lungs, pulmonary.
   A شص shaṣṣ (v.n.), Keeping back, restraining; having but little milk (a camel, &c.); having difficulty in getting a living; — shaṣṣ, shiṣṣ, A fish-hook; — shiṣṣ, An expert thief, one who steals whatever he sees.
   A شصب shaṣb (v.n.), Failing to conceive, though frequently covered (a camel); — shiṣb, Adversity; scarcity; hardship.
   شصت shaṣt (for shast), Sixty; a hook.
   شصتم shaṣtum , A sixtieth.
   شصت یك shaṣt-yak , A sixtieth.
   A شصر shaṣr (v.n.), Pricking (a thorn); spearing; butting with the horns; basting, sewing with wide stitches; sewing the eyes of a newly-captured falcon; — shaṣar, A young deer grown strong enough to butt, or one month old.
   A شصو shuṣūw (v.n.), Being fixed on an object (the eye); being carried high in the air (a cloud).
   A شصوب shuṣūb (v.n. of شصب) , Being afflicted, indigent; being difficult to earn (a livelihood).
   A شط shat̤t̤ (v.n.), Being troublesome, oppressing; being far distant; the bank of a river; the Tigris; any large river; the side of a camel's bunch.
   A شطا shat̤aʼ, shat̤ā , A blade, a leaf; a shoot, or young branch; — shit̤āʼ (v.n. 3 of شطاٴ), Walking (with another) on the opposite bank of a river.
   A شطاح shat̤t̤āḥ , Meretricious, lewd, obscene; artful; shameless.
   a شطاحی shat̤t̤āḥī , Shamelessness, effrontery; one who speaks contrary to the law.
   a شطارت shat̤ārat , Fearlessness; unconcern; disobedience.
   A شطاط shat̤āt̤, shit̤āt̤ (v.n. of شّط) , Being of a well-proportioned shape; distance.
   A شطح shat̤ḥ (v.n.), The ravings of an ecstatic; monkish ways; — shit̤t̤aḥ, A word used in driving goats or kids.
   A شطر shat̤r (v.n.), Milking (a camel, cow, or sheep) of two teats (out of the four); halving anything; the two fore or the two hinder teats of a camel; the half or part of a thing; a side, part, tract; intent, purpose.
   شطرك shat̤rak , Spleenwort.
   a شطرنج shat̤ranj, shit̤ranj , Chess [for the derivation of the name see شترنگ; more fanciful explanations are: ṣad ranj (a hundred cares), shāh-ranj (the royal care or sorrow), shash rang (six species or ranks, as shāh "king," farzīn "wazīr" for queen, fīl "elephant" for bishop, faras "horse" for knight, ruḵẖ "tower or castle," piyādagān "footmen, peons, or pawns"]; construed with the verbs bāḵẖtan, chīdan, and gustardan; — shat̤ranj kardan ustuḵẖẉān, To make chess-men.
   a شطرنج باز shat̤ranj-bāz , A chess-player.
   a شطرنج بازی shat̤ranj-bāzī , Chess; a sort of carpet.
   a شطرنجی shat̤ranjī , A kind of bread; a kind of carpet; a chess-player.
   a سطرنجی باف shat̤ranjī-bāf , Carpet-weaver.
   A شطط shat̤at̤ (v.n. of شّط) , Exceeding just bounds; tyrannizing over; injustice, oppression.