#shokolaat

[saffronandcyrus]

Unwrapping the Delights of Yorkshire's Inspired Chocolate

Hello, fabulous readers! Recently, our little Persian family embarked on a car journey with the promise of shirini-filled (sweet-filled) goodness awaiting us at Yorkshire’s Inspired Chocolate. Now, let me share the details of our fun-filled family day out before we headed to our cosy weekend retreat at The Burgoyne Hotel. Getting There: The Hunt for Shokolaat (Chocolate) Our cocoa-filled…

[makerofmadness]

So I haven't posted my Persian/Farsi translations of Cookie Run character names in a while huh

you see, I've been working on properly learning Farsi better. Which has made me grow dissatisfied with my previous translations (albeit they were mainly just meant for helping me memorize words in Farsi using characters from a game I love).

when I was at home for winter break, I was finally able to sit down with my parents in person and they actually helped me translate some of the Gacha pull screens in CRK! Thanks to my maman and baba for this, they helped me for every single one of these except for Gingerbrave <3 (I think I did edit some of them after the fact, mainly just for things like names or I think spelling mistakes I made. My parents didn't type it, I did. If anything is off, just blame me)

...and then I just put off posting them until now but uh- (mainly out of nervousness but uh. I can't just keep Not Posting forever-)

By the way, I was surprised seeing just how many people were genuinely interested in this. I even saw some other Iranian cookie run fans :3 I was really expecting these posts to just kinda live on my blog and only on my blog so it's been really cool to see! Anyway, here are the screens:

(I chose these characters at random, pretty much)

(I'll put any and all notes under the cut, plus the romanization for those who can't read Farsi but are curious as to what these say. Though just note that when I romanize from Farsi I do omit the ezaafeh because it isn't usually written to begin with and I don't always know when to apply it)

*Gingerbrave ("Brave Cookie"): بیسکویت شجاع (biskwit shojaa')

*Hollyberry Cookie: بیسکویت میوه خاس (biskwit mivah khaas)

«!شیپور را بزنید! بیسکویت میوه خاس رسیده است» ("shipoor raa bezanid! Biskwit mivah khaas resideh ast!")

*Wildberry Cookie: بیسکویت توت وحشی (biskwit toot vahshi)

«!برای پادشاهی میوه خاس» ("baraa-ye paadshaahi mivah khaas!")

*Vampire Cookie: بیسکویت خون آشام (biskwit khoon ashaam)

«.چرا این طور جدی هستی؟ بذار آب انور برایت بریزم» ("cheraa in toor jadi hasti? bezaar ab anoor baraayat berizam.")

*Lilac Cookie: بیسکویت یاس بنفش (biskwit yaas banafsh)

«.آن‌ها که رایحه من را بو می‌کنن... هرگز زنده نمی‌مونن» ("An-haa keh raayeheh man raa boo mi-konan... hargez zendeh nami-moonan.")

*Pastry Cookie: بیسکویت شیرینی (biskwit shirini)

«!برای دسته شیرینی قدیس» ("bara-ye dasteh shirini ghedis!")

*Cocoa Cookie: بیسکویت شکلات داغ (biskwit shokolaat daagh)

«یک فنجون شکلات داغ می‌خوای؟» ("yek fenjoon shokolaat daagh mi-khaai?")

*Moonlight Cookie ("Moonlight Magician Cookie"): بیسکویت جادوگر مهتاب (biskwit jaadoogar mahtaab)

«!تو هستی که مرا بیدار کردی» ("to hasti keh maraa bidaar kardi!")

*Devil Cookie: بیسکویت شیطان (biskwit sheytaan)

«.نگران نباش، به تو صدمه نخواهم زد... شاید» ("negaraan nabaash, beh to sadameh nakhaaham zad... shaayad.")

*Golden Cheese Cookie: بیسکویت پنیر طلا (biskwit panir talaa)

«!ملکه طلا هستم» ("malakeh talaa hastam!)

*Pitaya Dragon Cookie: بیسکویت اژدها پیتایا (biskwit ezhdehaa pitaayaa)

«پس شکل واقعی من را می‌خواهی ببینی؟» ("pas shekl vaaghe'i man raa mi-khaahi bebini?")

*Snapdragon Cookie: بیسکویت اژدها گل میمون (biskwit ezhdehaa gol meymoon)

«!باه به به» ("baah bah bah!")

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Notes:

*most of these screenshots were taken by me (you can tell if they have the bar at the bottom) (don't ask why I've stockpiled Gacha pull screenshots, I don't know why I started doing that either but it ended up being useful for this). But some of these I found online of on youtube. I didn't keep track of the sources I'll admit, and these are the same screens you can find in game on any save file anyway, but I do know that Gingerbrave's screen I got via Royal Mike on youtube.

*being at home for winter break and more easily able to communicate, actually seeing my parents in-person, maman told me she didn't know what کوکی (kooki) meant and that the word for "cookie" in Farsi is بیسکویت (biskwit) (pronounced "bis-kweet," btw. Think "biscuit" but fancier). Which was a surprise for me because کوکی does yield farsi search results and a website told me it was the translation for cookie (the website was one I liked to use because it had audio for the words. A lot of translation things for farsi lack audio or romanization, and I was only just learning to read on my own at school, so I really appreciated something that reliably had audio for words). I have no clue if it's some kind of modern slang, but I've decided to use بیسکویت going forward, especially since the other main reason I'm doing this is so I can share one of my interests with my family (and not all of my family knows English decently).

*after looking at what some of the official localizations do with character names, and also learning how Farsi adjectives work (basically: I think Spanish works the same, where a word goes after the noun it modifies), I've realized that my way of presenting the names (formatted like: first name "[x]," last name "cookie") was wrong so if the names feel a little bit "flipped" to anyone who's seen my other posts, that's why.

*I didn't know how to translate Gingerbrave's name from English so I just reverted his name to how it is to my knowledge in the original Korean version of the game (I don't know Korean but this is what I see everything saying his name is). And to be consistent with that, I did it with Moonlight too since I know her name is also a bit different originally. This is really just to appease myself XD

*The gaming scene is huge in Iran (including mobile gaming) but because of sanctions and the App Store being blocked (Iran has its own App Store called Café Bazaar. Apparently Clash of Clans is officially available on there... or was. I heard it got banned-), a lot of games don't have Farsi localizations. And with most Gacha games being either East Asian or western, I don't even know if Gacha games are a thing in Iran. Which led to the problem of the rarity system names since the names Cookie run uses are I think not entirely unique to it, even if they are pretty uncommon in the grand scheme of Gacha games (most games use stars or letters). At least the most basic rarities, most games to my knowledge don't have "dragon" or "ancient" as an option (yeah that feels A bit special-). I don't know if anything is standard, so I just decided to decide myself what to translate the rarities as:

Common -> معمول (ma'mool)

Rare -> کویاب (kamyaab)

Epic -> حماسی (hemaasi)

Legendary -> افسانه‌ای (afsaaneh-i)

Special -> خاص (khaas)

Ancient -> باستان (baastaan)

Dragon -> اژدها (ezhdehaa)

And the two I didn't include an example for here:

Super Epic -> خیلی حماسی (kheyli hemaasi)

Guest -> مهمان (mehmaan)

*I also had to translate the names of the different types of cookies. I'll just put it all down here (I'm not completely sure if the way I translated "ranged" was satisfactory, but my maman thought it was fine and I couldn't think of anything else or find anything else that worked better):

Charge -> حمله (hamleh)

Defense -> دفاع (defaa')

Magic -> جادو (jaadoo)

Ambush -> کمین (kamin)

Support -> تقویت (taghviyat)

Ranged -> دور برد (door bard)

And the ones that i don't have examples of here:

Bomber -> بمب انداز (bomb andaaz)

Healing -> التیام (eltiyaam)

*I decided to alter snapdragon's name to what would basically translate to "snapdragon dragon" into english because the snapdragon flower is called گل میمون or monkey flower (not to be confused with the mimulus flower which is also known as monkey flower in english) in farsi so the fact that "dragon" is already present in their name would be completely lost.

*The holly plant's fruits aren't actually berries (they're more like drupes) and to my knowledge they aren't really referred to as berries in Farsi (when I looked up توت خاس it didn't really lead to anything). So I basically had to change Hollyberry's name to "Holly Fruit" (which actually DOES yield search results when you look it up)

[ashuribbon]

SMORE'S COOKIE (REAL NAME: SHOKOLAAT COOKIE)

A sweet scent of delicious marshmallows and chocolate swirl around you. As you stroll in the desert suns of Yogurca, you see a Cookie in the mere distance, all in the colors of blacks, reds, and sometimes white and brown chocolate. That Cookie is Smore's Cookie. Growing up, he lived in the Village of the Traveling Boz, a place that was famous where his villages' ancestor defeated the wicked jinn that terrorized Yogurca. His prophetic visions in his dream state were what made some Cookies want him as their prophet, but when his dreams foretold him the return of the monstrous jinn, he instead chose to be an artist, leaving him to be like the few of the village who left. He can be found in a bazaar, where you can buy his digital work for good amount of gold. However, he seems to have a particular goal in mind, but he never seems to mention it... It's rumored it may have something to do with the Yogurt family, as he would say this, "There is a monster in the Yogurt family. Behead the jinn."

[ As always, reblogs are much appreciated! ]