Farsi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "عصبانی" in Farsi?

Say "a-sa-BAH-nee" — four syllables, with the strongest stress on the long 'bā'.

عصبانی /æsæbɒːˈni/

asabāni

Stress falls on the third syllable, bā (the long ā vowel); the final -i is a light, unstressed adjective ending.

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Sound it out

عصب 'asab' — ع is a soft glottal onset (barely audible, not a hard consonant to English ears), so it sounds close to 'uh-sab'.

ا A long 'ā', like 'aw' in 'law' — this is the stressed syllable.

نی 'ni', a light unstressed 'nee', as in English 'knee' but shorter and softer.

Hear it in a sentence

از دست او عصبانی هستم.

Az dast-e u asabāni hastam.

I'm angry at him.

Listen: از دست او عصبانی هستم.

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'Az dast-e u asabāni hastam' literally means 'From his hand I am angry,' using the idiom az dast-e (kasi) — 'because of/at (someone)' — to express anger at a person; hastam ('I am') is the ordinary copula for describing an emotional state.

Where English speakers slip

English speakers tend to pronounce the ع (ayn) as a hard consonant; in Tehrani Persian it's barely audible — just a slight catch before the vowel, not a strong Arabic-style glottal stop.