Farsi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "امن" in Farsi?

Q: How do you pronounce امن in Farsi?

امن is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /æmn/. It means “safe.” Formally one syllable, "amn", with the m and n run together at the end; in relaxed everyday speech people often ease it apart into "a-man".

Formally one syllable, "amn", with the m and n run together at the end; in relaxed everyday speech people often ease it apart into "a-man".

امن /æmn/

amn

There's no separate stress syllable in the strict one-syllable pronunciation, but when speakers insert a light vowel between m and n in casual speech, the stress shifts to that inserted final syllable.

Listen: امن

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Sound it out

امـ A glottal-stop-plus-vowel start (the ا here carries a short "a" sound, like the a in "cup"), followed by "m" as in "moon".

ن A final "n", pronounced right after the m with no vowel between them in careful/formal speech — though casual speech often eases in a short vowel, giving "aman".

Hear it in a sentence

این شهر امن است.

In shahr amn ast.

This city is safe.

Listen: این شهر امن است.

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"In shahr amn ast" (This city is safe) uses shahr ("city"), and like every other example in this set, the adjective amn slots directly before ast with no linking word — worth noting that amn, of Arabic origin, is more common in slightly formal or written contexts, while amniyat ("security") is its related noun form.

Where English speakers slip

English speakers, unused to ending a word with the consonant cluster "mn" (as in "amn"), instinctively insert a vowel, which is actually fine and matches casual Persian speech ("aman"); the real pitfall is instead mispronouncing the first vowel, which should be a short, open "a" as in "cup", not a long "ay" as in the English name "Amen".