Farsi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "حقوق" in Farsi?

Say "ho-GHOOGH" — two syllables, stress on the second, with a growly 'gh' sound both times (not a hard English 'g').

حقوق /hoɣuːɣ/

hoghugh

Stress falls on the final syllable; both ق letters represent the same 'gh' sound, giving the word a distinctive gh...gh pattern.

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Sound it out

ح 'ho', a plain English 'h' (the same sound as ه, despite being a different letter) plus a short 'o'.

قو 'ghu', the raspy back-of-throat 'gh' plus a long 'u' as in 'boot' — this is the stressed syllable.

ق a second 'gh', ending the word with the same raspy sound repeated.

Hear it in a sentence

حقوقم را گرفتم.

Hoghugh-am rā gereftam.

I received my salary.

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'Hoghugh-am rā gereftam' means 'I received my salary' — hoghugh-am ('my salary') takes the possessive suffix -am, and rā marks it as the definite direct object of gereftam ('I received/took'), from gereftan (to take/receive).

Where English speakers slip

Learners often pronounce ح as a throat-clearing sound like خ; in Tehrani Persian ح is completely plain, identical to ه/English 'h' — it's the ق letters that carry the raspy sound, not ح.