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Farsi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "مادر" in Farsi?
Say "MAH-dar", stressing the first syllable — the ā is a long, open "ah" like in "father".
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مادر is one of a small set of Persian kinship words (along with پدر, برادر, خواهر, پسر, دختر) that break the usual final-stress rule and are stressed on the first syllable instead — a well-known exception worth memorizing as a group.
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Hear it in a sentence
مادرم غذای خوبی میپزد.
Mādaram ghazā-ye khubi mipazad.
My mother cooks good food.
Listen: مادرم غذای خوبی میپزد.
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"مادرم غذای خوبی میپزد" ("My mother cooks good food") attaches the possessive suffix -am directly onto مادر to mean "my mother", and uses the ezafe -e on غذا (غذای) to link it to خوبی ("good"), literally "food-of good".
Where English speakers slip
English speakers default to stressing the second syllable ("ma-DAR") because that matches the general Persian final-stress rule. مادر is an exception: the stress must land on the first syllable, MĀ-dar, not the second.