Farsi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "برادر" in Farsi?

Q: How do you pronounce برادر in Farsi?

برادر is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /bæ.rɑː.dær/. It means “brother.” Say "ba-RAH-dar" — three syllables, with the stress landing on the middle "rā", not the first or last.

Say "ba-RAH-dar" — three syllables, with the stress landing on the middle "rā", not the first or last.

برادر /bæ.rɑː.dær/

barādar

برادر is part of the classic kinship-word exception set (with مادر, پدر, خواهر, پسر, دختر) that doesn't take the regular final stress; here the stress lands specifically on the middle syllable rā.

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Sound it out

ب English "b" as in "boy".

را A long "rah" — a tapped r followed by the long "ah" vowel of "father"; this is the stressed syllable.

د ر Unstressed "-dar", said lightly and quickly, almost swallowed compared to the stressed middle syllable.

Hear it in a sentence

برادرم دانشجو است.

Barādaram dāneshju ast.

My brother is a student.

Listen: برادرم دانشجو است.

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"برادرم دانشجو است" ("My brother is a university student") distinguishes دانشجو (a university/college student) from دانش‌آموز (a school pupil) — a vocabulary distinction Persian makes that English collapses into one word, "student".

Where English speakers slip

Learners often flatten the word to even stress or stress the first syllable ("BA-ra-dar"). The correct target is a clearly stronger middle syllable: ba-RĀ-dar, with the unstressed final -dar trailing off quickly.