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How do you pronounce "گل" in Farsi?
Say 'gol' to rhyme with English 'ball' but with a short, pure vowel — not the diphthong of English 'goal'.
gol
A one-syllable word; the vowel is a short, pure 'o', shorter than the vowel in English 'goal'.
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این گل بوی خوبی دارد.
In gol bu-ye khubi dārad.
This flower smells good.
Listen: این گل بوی خوبی دارد.
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In gol bu-ye khubi dārad. — 'This flower smells good.' Bu-ye khubi dārad literally means 'it has a good smell', using dārad ('it has') plus bu-ye khub ('good smell', linked by ezāfe) as the standard Persian way to express how something smells, rather than a dedicated verb like English 'smells'.
Where English speakers slip
Because English 'goal' has a similar spelling-to-sound pattern, learners often turn the Persian vowel into the English diphthong 'oh-oo'. Keep it a short, flat, single vowel — closer to the 'o' in 'dog' — rather than letting it glide into a second sound.