"پیش از" meaning in Persian

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  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "پیش",
        "3": "از",
        "t1": "previously, fore, front",
        "t2": "from",
        "tr1": "piš",
        "tr2": "az"
      },
      "expansion": "پیش (piš, “previously, fore, front”) + از (az, “from”)",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "پیش (piš, “previously, fore, front”) + از (az, “from”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "piš az",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "preposition",
        "tr": "piš az"
      },
      "expansion": "پیش از • (piš az)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Persian",
  "lang_code": "fa",
  "pos": "prep",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "پس از"
        },
        {
          "word": "بعد از"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Persian entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Persian prepositions",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "You woke us up from our stupor; you taught us things that we hadn't even thought about before now.",
          "ref": "1967, Samad Behrangi, ماهی سیاه کوچولو [The Little Black Fish]",
          "roman": "to mâ-râ az xâb-e xarguši bidâr kardi, be mâ čiz-hâ-yi yâd dâdi ke piš az in hattâ fekr-eš-râ ham na-karde budim.",
          "text": "تو ما را از خواب خرگوشی بیدار کردی، به ما چیزهایی یاد دادی که پیش از این حتی فکرش را هم نکرده بودیم.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "before"
      ],
      "id": "en-پیش_از-fa-prep-bbfYA-dP",
      "links": [
        [
          "before",
          "before"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "قبل از"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[peːʃ ʔaz]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Persian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[pʰeːʃ ʔäz]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[pʰeːʃ ʔäz]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[pʰeːʃ ʔäz]",
      "tags": [
        "Kabuli"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[pʰeːʃ ʔäz]",
      "note": "Hazaragi"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[pʰiːʃ ʔæz]",
      "tags": [
        "Iran",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[pʰeʃ ʔäz]",
      "tags": [
        "Tajik",
        "formal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "پیش از"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "پیش",
        "3": "از",
        "t1": "previously, fore, front",
        "t2": "from",
        "tr1": "piš",
        "tr2": "az"
      },
      "expansion": "پیش (piš, “previously, fore, front”) + از (az, “from”)",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "پیش (piš, “previously, fore, front”) + از (az, “from”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "piš az",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "preposition",
        "tr": "piš az"
      },
      "expansion": "پیش از • (piš az)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Persian",
  "lang_code": "fa",
  "pos": "prep",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "پس از"
        },
        {
          "word": "بعد از"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "Persian compound terms",
        "Persian entries with incorrect language header",
        "Persian lemmas",
        "Persian multiword terms",
        "Persian prepositions",
        "Persian terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Persian terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "You woke us up from our stupor; you taught us things that we hadn't even thought about before now.",
          "ref": "1967, Samad Behrangi, ماهی سیاه کوچولو [The Little Black Fish]",
          "roman": "to mâ-râ az xâb-e xarguši bidâr kardi, be mâ čiz-hâ-yi yâd dâdi ke piš az in hattâ fekr-eš-râ ham na-karde budim.",
          "text": "تو ما را از خواب خرگوشی بیدار کردی، به ما چیزهایی یاد دادی که پیش از این حتی فکرش را هم نکرده بودیم.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "before"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "before",
          "before"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "قبل از"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[peːʃ ʔaz]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Persian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[pʰeːʃ ʔäz]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[pʰeːʃ ʔäz]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[pʰeːʃ ʔäz]",
      "tags": [
        "Kabuli"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[pʰeːʃ ʔäz]",
      "note": "Hazaragi"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[pʰiːʃ ʔæz]",
      "tags": [
        "Iran",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[pʰeʃ ʔäz]",
      "tags": [
        "Tajik",
        "formal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "پیش از"
}