Farsi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "گذرنامه" in Farsi?

Say "go-zar-NAH-meh" — four syllables, stress on the third (the long 'ā'), with a light final 'meh'.

گذرنامه /gozærnɒːˈme/

gozarnāme

Stress falls on nā, the syllable with the long ā vowel; the final ه (me) trails off unstressed, the same pattern as jalase and khāne.

Listen: گذرنامه

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Sound it out

گذر 'go-zar', meaning 'passage/crossing' — گ is a hard English 'g', ذ is pronounced simply as 'z' in modern Persian (not 'th' as in Arabic), ر is a light tapped r.

نا 'nā', the stressed syllable — a plain n plus the long ā vowel.

مه 'me', an unstressed final syllable meaning 'letter/document', like the end of English 'may' cut short.

Hear it in a sentence

گذرنامه‌ام را گم کردم.

Gozarnāme-am rā gom kardam.

I lost my passport.

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'Gozarnāme-am rā gom kardam' means 'I lost my passport' — again the possessive -am plus the object marker rā, with gom kardan ('to make lost') as the compound verb for 'to lose'.

Where English speakers slip

The letter ذ can mislead English speakers into guessing a 'th' or 'dh' sound by analogy with Arabic; in standard Iranian Persian it's simply pronounced as 'z', so gozarnāme should never have a 'th' sound in it.