Farsi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "جنگل" in Farsi?

Q: How do you pronounce جنگل in Farsi?

جنگل is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written [dʒæŋɡæl]. It means “forest.” Say 'jun-GAL' — starting with the 'j' of English 'jungle' (in fact this is the same root word), stress on the second syllable.

Say 'jun-GAL' — starting with the 'j' of English 'jungle' (in fact this is the same root word), stress on the second syllable.

جنگل [dʒæŋɡæl]

jangal

Stress falls on the final syllable -gal; note that جنگل is the direct historical source of the English word 'jungle', so the sounds should feel familiar.

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Sound it out

جن Pronounced 'jan' — an English 'j' as in 'jungle' plus a short vowel and a nasal 'n', which nasalizes toward 'ng' before the following g.

گل Pronounced 'gal' — a hard English 'g' plus a short vowel like the 'a' in 'gal', carrying the stress.

Hear it in a sentence

در جنگل قدم زدیم.

Dar jangal ghadam zadim.

We walked in the forest.

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Dar jangal ghadam zadim. — 'We walked in the forest.' Ghadam zadim is a compound verb, literally 'we struck a step/pace', the standard Persian idiom for 'we walked/strolled'; dar jangal simply means 'in the forest' with the ordinary preposition dar.

Where English speakers slip

Because English borrowed this exact word as 'jungle', learners sometimes just say the English word with an English accent. Keep the vowels short and Persian-flavored (a clipped 'a', not the diphthong in English 'jungle'), and put the stress on the second syllable rather than the first.