Farsi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "آینه" in Farsi?

Q: How do you pronounce آینه in Farsi?

آینه is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written [ɒː.ˈje.ne]. It means “mirror.” Say "ah-YEH-neh", with the stress on the middle syllable — the final 'eh' is short and unstressed.

Say "ah-YEH-neh", with the stress on the middle syllable — the final 'eh' is short and unstressed.

آینه [ɒː.ˈje.ne]

āyene

Words ending in the short, unstressed ه vowel break the usual final-stress pattern: stress here falls on the middle syllable -ye-, not the last.

Listen: آینه

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Sound it out

آ آ is a long 'ā' vowel like 'father', pronounced clearly on its own at the start of the word.

ینه ی here is a consonant 'y' as in 'yes'; ن is 'n'; the final ه is a short, unstressed 'e' vowel, like the end of 'coffee' said briefly — together 'ye-ne'.

Hear it in a sentence

خودش را در آینه نگاه کرد.

Khod-ash rā dar āyene negāh kard.

She looked at herself in the mirror.

Listen: خودش را در آینه نگاه کرد.

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"Khod-ash rā dar āyene negāh kard" uses خودش ('herself/himself', reflexive خود plus the third-person suffix -ash) as the object marked by را, and نگاه کرد ('looked', literally 'did a look') is another light-verb construction pairing the noun نگاه with کردن, very common for actions like looking, talking, or working.

Where English speakers slip

Because words ending in ه (short 'e') break the usual 'stress the last syllable' rule, English speakers often wrongly stress the final syllable ('ay-eh-NEH') instead of the correct middle syllable; they also sometimes turn the initial آ into a diphthong rather than a pure, sustained 'ā' vowel.