LingoDrop
Farsi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "کتاب" in Farsi?
Say 'ke-TAHB' — a quick opening syllable followed by a stressed long 'ah' closed off with a 'b'.
ketāb
Stress falls on the final syllable -tāb; the first syllable ke- is short and unstressed.
Listen: کتاب
Free browser voice. Hear it read by a real native speaker inside the LingoDrop app.
Sound it out
Hear it in a sentence
این کتاب را دوست دارم.
In ketāb rā dust dāram.
I like this book.
Listen: این کتاب را دوست دارم.
Free browser voice. Hear it read by a real native speaker inside the LingoDrop app.
In ketāb rā dust dāram. — 'I like this book.' Rā is Persian's direct object marker, placed right after a definite object (in ketāb, 'this book') to flag it as the thing being acted on — English has no equivalent word and instead relies on word order. Dust dāram, literally 'I hold as friend', is the standard idiom for 'I like'.
Where English speakers slip
Learners often flatten the stressed -tāb into a short vowel, saying something closer to 'KET-ab'. Keep the first syllable light and put the weight and vowel length on the second syllable, tāb.