Your forefathers were thieves.

Persian (Farsi) translation: جد و آبادت دزده

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English term or phrase:	Your forefathers were thieves.
Persian (Farsi) translation:	جد و آبادت دزده
Entered by:	Hossein Abbasi Mohaghegh

13:02 Oct 8, 2010

English to Persian (Farsi) translations [Non-PRO]
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English term or phrase: Your forefathers were thieves.

Greetings,

"Jadh Bodet Dozde" comes up on a site for Persian slang.

The meaning would seem to be “Your past generations are thieves”, i.e. “Your forefathers were thieves.”

Just in case it means something worse than that, I think I'd better mark it ‘potentially offensive’.

Please can you reconstruct the original Persian spelling etc. for me?

If "Jadh Bodet Dozde" is completely wrong, please give me another Persian equivalent of the insult.

All the best, and many thanks,

Simon

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Local time: 19:02

جد ؤ آبادت دزده

Explanation:
Jaddo AbAdet dozdeh

Selected response from:

Hossein Abbasi Mohaghegh
Local time: 21:32

Grading comment

many thanks excellent
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

5 +7

جد ؤ آبادت دزده

Hossein Abbasi Mohaghegh

5 +3

جد آبادت دزده

Farzad Akmali

5 +1

جد و آبادت دزده/دستشون کجه

Ali Ramezani

Answers

1 min confidence:

peer agreement (net): +7

your forefathers were thieves.

جد ؤ آبادت دزده

Explanation:
Jaddo AbAdet dozdeh

Hossein Abbasi Mohaghegh
Local time: 21:32
Native speaker of:

Persian (Farsi)

Grading comment

many thanks excellent

3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

your forefathers were thieves. جد و آبادت دزده/دستشون کجه

Explanation:
جد و آبادت دزده/دستشون کجه

Ali Ramezani
Malaysia
Native speaker of: Persian (Farsi)

2 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

your forefathers were thieves. جد آبادت دزده

Explanation:
Jaddeh- AbAdet dozde

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Note added at 10 mins (2010-10-08 13:12:29 GMT)
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Dear Simon,

it is worth mentioning that the exact phrase is جد و آباء (Jad va (o) Aba') literally "ancestor and forefathers" but in daily speech we use جد آباد or جد و آباد!

Farzad Akmali
Native speaker of:

Persian (Farsi)
PRO pts in category: 8

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