نازنین من مه جبین من
Nazaneen Man Mah Jabeen Man
“My Sweetheart, My Moon-Faced One”
Lyrics
Lyrics updated · July 2026English Translation
O my delicate one, my moon-faced one, my moon-faced one O my familiar, my heart-pleasing one
I became very patient, submerged in blood I was your lover and grew heart-pleased From your separation I became sorrowful, O my beloved
O my beloved, my rose garden
Transliteration
Nazaneen man mah jabeen man mah jabeen man Ashnaye man dilneshin man dilnashin man Nazaneen man mah jabeen man mah jabeen man Ashnaye man dilneshin man dilnashin man
O sakht saboor shodam gharq-e khoon shodam O sakht saboor shodam gharq-e khoon shodam Asheqat bodam dilnashin shodam Az feraq-e tu gashtam hazin ay negar-e man Az feraq-e tu gashtam hazin ay negar-e man Ay negar-e man gul o zar-e man Ay negar-e man gul o zar-e man Nazaneen man mah jabeen man mah jabeen man Ashnaye man dilneshin man dilnashin man Nazaneen man mah jabeen man mah jabeen man Ashnaye man dilneshin man dilnashin man
O bewafa shodi por jafa shodi O bewafa shodi por jafa shodi Baz du bara ke ashena shodi Baz du bara ke ashena shodi Az feraq-e tu gashtam hazin ay negar-e man Az feraq-e tu gashtam hazin ay negar-e man Ay negar-e man gul o zar-e man Ay negar-e man gul o zar-e man Nazaneen man mah jabeen man mah jabeen man Ashnaye man dilneshin man dilnashin man Nazaneen man mah jabeen man mah jabeen man Ashnaye man dilneshin man dilnashin man
متن اصلی
نازنین من مه جبین من مهجبین من آشنای من دلنشین من دلنشین من نازنین من مه جبین من مهجبین من آشنای من دلنشین من دلنشین من
او سخت صبور شدم غرق خون شدم او سخت صبور شدم غرق خون شدم عاشقت بودم دلنشین شد م از فراق تو گشتم حزين ای نگار من از فراق تو گشتم حزين ای نگار من ای نگار من گلزار من ای نگار من گلزار من نازنین من مه جبین من مهجبین من آشنای من دلنشین من دلنشین من نازنین من مه جبین من مهجبین من آشنای من دلنشین من دلنشین من
او بی وفا شدی پر جفا شدی او بی وفا شدی پر جفا شدی باز دو باره که آشنا شدی باز دو باره که آشنا شدی از فراق تو گشتم حزين ای نگار من از فراق تو گشتم حزين ای نگار من ای نگار من گلزار من ای نگار من گلزار من نازنین من مه جبین من مهجبین من آشنای من دلنشین من دلنشین من نازنین من مه جبین من مهجبین من آشنای من دلنشین من دلنشین من
O my delicate one, my moon-faced one — I became very patient, submerged in blood; I was your lover and grew heart-pleased; from your separation I became sorrowful, O my beloved, my rose garden.
About This Recording
Nazaneen Man Mah Jabeen Man — O My Delicate One, My Moon-Faced One — is a compressed love lyric whose repetition of the address ('my delicate one, my moon-faced one') creates the effect of a name being spoken twice, as if to confirm the beloved's reality. The moon-faced one (mah-jabeen) is a classical Dari compliment: the face as a moon, which in Persian lyric has exactly the qualities a face should have — pale radiance, perfect roundness, the quality of illuminating darkness.
'I became very patient, submerged in blood / I was your lover and grew heart-pleased' — patience submerged in blood is a paradox: patience implies endurance, being submerged in blood implies being overwhelmed. Both states coexist. 'Heart-pleased' (khosh-del) from being your lover suggests that the love itself, regardless of its cost, was a source of pleasure — even while being submerged in blood from it.
The address to the beloved as 'my rose garden' (gulzarame) at the end is one of the most compressed metaphors in Persian lyric: the rose garden is an enclosure of beauty, tended, fragrant, the cultivated landscape of love. To call the beloved 'my rose garden' is to say they contain and embody everything the garden represents. The song is brief but its final note — sorrowful from your separation, beloved, rose garden — holds both the grief and the beauty that caused it simultaneously.
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