Farsi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "همسر" in Farsi?

Say "ham-SAR", stressing the second syllable — a more formal, gender-neutral word for "spouse" than شوهر/زن.

همسر /hæm.sær/

hamsar

Regular final-syllable stress applies, unlike the kinship exception group above.

Listen: همسر

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Sound it out

هم English "hum" with a short vowel, as in "hum" the sound bees make, not "ham" the meat (though the transliteration looks like "ham").

س ر "s" plus a light tapped r, forming the stressed final syllable "-sar".

Hear it in a sentence

همسرم پزشک است.

Hamsaram pezeshk ast.

My wife is a doctor.

Listen: همسرم پزشک است.

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"همسرم پزشک است" ("My spouse is a doctor") uses همسر precisely because it's neutral — usable for a wife or husband alike — which makes it common in formal writing, forms, and polite speech where شوهر or زن might feel too casual or gender-specific.

Where English speakers slip

The transliteration "hamsar" misleads English speakers into pronouncing the first syllable like the meat "ham". It should be a short, closed "u" as in "hum", not the open "a" of "ham".