Category:Persian terms by usage

Persian terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.

• Category:Persian terms with archaic senses: Persian terms with individual senses that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature, sometimes still used for special effect, and typically recognized by native speakers.
• Category:Persian archaic terms: Persian terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature, sometimes still used for special effect, and typically recognized by native speakers.
• Category:Persian autological terms: Persian terms that possess the property they themselves describe.
• Category:Persian censored spellings: Persian spellings where some characters have been changed in an effort to reduce the shock value of the original term.
• Category:Persian childish terms: Persian terms that are typically only used by, or to, children.
• Category:Persian colloquialisms: Persian terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
• Category:Persian dated terms: Persian terms that are no longer fashionable and thus are anachronistic, but still sometimes in use, especially by older speakers.
• Category:Persian derogatory terms: Persian terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
• Category:Persian dialectal terms: Persian terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
• Category:Persian endearing terms: Persian terms that are used to show affection or endearment to another person.
• Category:Persian familiar terms: Persian terms whose use is typically to contexts of friendly intimacy.
• Category:Persian formal terms: Persian terms whose use is typically restricted to polite, ceremonious, non-casual contexts.
• Category:Persian higher register terms: Persian terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
• Category:Persian historical terms: Persian terms that refer to obsolete things or concepts.
• Category:Persian honorific terms: Persian honorific terms, which are used to show deference and respect.
• Category:Persian humorous terms: Persian terms that are humorous, amusing or joking.
• Category:Persian informal terms: Persian terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
• Category:Persian nonstandard terms: Persian terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
• Category:Persian terms with obsolete senses: Persian terms with individual senses that are no longer in use and not usually recognized by native speakers, but still sometimes found in older literature.
• Category:Persian obsolete terms: Persian terms that are no longer in use and not usually recognized by native speakers, but still sometimes found in older literature.
• Category:Persian offensive terms: Persian terms that are typically considered to offend people.
• Category:Persian officialese terms: Persian terms that are chiefly used by official sources, and are often bureaucratic-sounding.
• Category:Persian oxymorons: Persian terms that are juxtapositions of opposing ideas.
• Category:Persian poetic terms: Persian terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
• Category:Persian polite terms: Persian polite terms, which are used to show deference and respect.
• Category:Persian proscribed terms: Persian terms whose usage is proscribed; thus, they are considered wrong according to prescriptive sources.
• Category:Persian terms with rare senses: Persian terms with individual senses that are rarely found in general use and may not be recognized by some native speakers.
• Category:Persian rare terms: Persian terms that are rarely found in general use and may not be recognized by some native speakers.
• Category:Persian short forms: Persian terms that are short forms of other terms, often used informally.
• Category:Persian slang: Persian colloquial terms that are typically used to mark membership in a cultural subgroup.
• Category:Persian terms with historical senses: Persian terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
• Category:Persian terms with transferred senses: Persian terms with transferred senses.
• Category:Persian terms with uncommon senses: Persian terms with individual senses that are in general use but not common.
• Category:Persian uncommon terms: Persian terms that are in general use but not common.
• Category:Persian vulgarities: Persian terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.