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Farsi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "هتل" in Farsi?
Say "ho-TEL", stressing the second syllable — close to the English word but with even, clipped vowels.
hotel
As a loanword, hotel keeps final-syllable stress like most Persian words, unlike English 'HO-tel', which stresses the first syllable — don't import the English stress pattern.
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در هتل خوبی اقامت داریم.
Dar hotel-e khubi eghāmat dārim.
We're staying at a good hotel.
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'Dar hotel-e khubi eghāmat dārim' means 'We're staying at a good hotel' — hotel-e khubi uses the ezafe to attach 'good', and eghāmat dāshtan ('to have a stay/residence') is the compound verb for 'to stay/reside'.
Where English speakers slip
Because the word looks identical to English 'hotel', English speakers default to the English stress pattern (HO-tel); Persian flips it to ho-TEL, and the wrong stress is one of the most common giveaways of a foreign accent on this word.