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Farsi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "دراز" in Farsi?
Say "deh-RAHZ", with the second syllable long and stressed, like the "raz" in a stretched-out "bizarre".
derāz
Stress falls on the final syllable, -RĀZ, which carries a long ā vowel — keep the first syllable short and unstressed by contrast.
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موهایش دراز است.
Mu-hā-yesh derāz ast.
Her/His hair is long.
Listen: موهایش دراز است.
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"Mu-hā-yesh derāz ast" (Her/His hair is long) attaches -yesh, a possessive ending meaning "his/her", onto the plural mu-hā ("hairs") — Persian treats hair as a plural noun (mu-hā, literally "hairs") even where English uses a singular mass noun "hair".
Where English speakers slip
English speakers often make the r in derāz too strong or American-r-like; in Persian it's a light, quick tap of the tongue against the roof of the mouth, closer to the "tt" in an American pronunciation of "butter" than to an English "r".