Chachahe

English translation: chattering

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Persian (Farsi) term or phrase:chachaheh
English translation:chattering
Entered by: WJM53

02:44 Dec 28, 2015
Persian (Farsi) to English translations [PRO]
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Persian (Farsi) term or phrase: Chachahe
This is from a conversation between a police detective and a drug-addicted inmate in the Iranian film تیغ و ابریشم. The film is set during the Iran-Iraq war.


Detective:
امروز میتونی فکر کنی به اون کثافتی که تو رو به این روز انداخته.
یاد اونا باش. اون با شرف ها
نیگا چی به سرتون میارن
اون هم شما که درس خوندین
تو مدرکت چیه؟

Inmate:
اقتصاد خوندم. انگلیس

Detective:
چرا برنگشتی همونجا؟
به آزادی...

خیلی ها مثل تو برگشتن و اسمش رو گذاشتن
زندگی خوصوصی با آزادی

Inmate:
من زندگی خوصوصی ندارم!

Detective:
اونایی که رفتن به زندگی خوصوصیشون چسبیدن...

به زندگی خوصوصیشون بدهکارن. باید خوش بگذرونن
توی خوش گذشتن. اون هم شبها توی کافه. با قر و آواز وطن وطن میکنن. وطن توی اون کافه هاست با بشکن و ویسکی و چهچهه؟ یا توی خرمشهر؟


چهچهه (Chachahe) = ?

Thanks.
WJM53
United States
Local time: 03:11
chatter / cheep
Explanation:
chatter / cheep

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/chatter

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/cheep
Selected response from:

Mohammad Sinaee
Iran
Local time: 03:11
Grading comment
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Summary of answers provided
5warbling
Ali Farzaneh
5twittering
Said Tabibi
5yodeling
Ramak Milani
4to chitter
Roya Ghaderi
3chatter / cheep
Mohammad Sinaee


  

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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
warbling


Explanation:
to sing with a high continuous but quickly changing sound, the way a bird does

Ali Farzaneh
Iran
Local time: 10:41
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in Persian (Farsi)Persian (Farsi)
PRO pts in category: 308
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
twittering


Explanation:
The light chirping sound made by certain birds.

Example sentence(s):
  • The air was full of the smell of flowers, and the buzzing of insects, and the twittering of birds, and there were no people, no wagons, there was no stir of life, nothing going on.
  • (Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee, Chapter 1, CAMELOT

    Reference: http://twain.thefreelibrary.com
Said Tabibi
United States
Local time: 02:11
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in DariDari, Native in Persian (Farsi)Persian (Farsi)
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
chatter / cheep


Explanation:
chatter / cheep

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/chatter

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/cheep

Mohammad Sinaee
Iran
Local time: 03:11
Native speaker of: Native in Persian (Farsi)Persian (Farsi)
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
to chitter


Explanation:
chitter--> to twitter ***like*** a bird
warble--> -of a bird: to sing a song that has many different nootes
- humorous: to sing sth especially with a high or shaky voice
twitter--> to make fast and usually high sounds (birds)

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Note added at 5 hrs (2015-12-28 08:24:45 GMT)
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chatter--> to make fast usually high-pitched sounds.

*both chitter and chatter can make sense in the context.

Roya Ghaderi
Iran
Local time: 10:41
Native speaker of: Native in Persian (Farsi)Persian (Farsi)
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1 day 12 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
yodeling


Explanation:
"In Persian and Azeri classical music, singers frequently use tahrir, a yodeling technique that oscillates on neighboring tones."


    Reference: http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Yodeling
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yodeling
Ramak Milani
United States
Local time: 03:11
Native speaker of: Persian (Farsi)
PRO pts in category: 80
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