Hindi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "भरा" in Hindi?

Q: How do you pronounce भरा in Hindi?

भरा is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /bʱə.ɾaː/. It means “full.” bhuh-RAA — breathy-voiced b, a bare schwa, one tap, and a long aa.

bhuh-RAA — breathy-voiced b, a bare schwa, one tap, and a long aa.

भरा /bʱə.ɾaː/

bharaa

The word is back-loaded — a short vowel run-up into a long one — but the breathy onset gives the first syllable more audible time than its vowel deserves. That is the aspiration, not prominence, and the beat still belongs to -raa.

Listen: भरा

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Sound it out

bh भ is voiced and aspirated at once: the lips close with the voice already on, and a warm sigh follows the release.

a A colourless schwa, so brief it is almost swallowed by the breathiness before it.

raa One flick of the tongue tip opening into a long आ, which is also the masculine agreement ending.

Hear it in a sentence

गिलास भरा हुआ है।

Gilaas bharaa huaa hai.

The glass is full.

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"Gilaas bharaa huaa hai" adds huaa, the perfective of honaa, to give a resultant-state reading, and both bharaa and huaa agree masculine with gilaas. Huaa's two vowels in hiatus, with only a voiced h in front, make it easy to slur.

Where English speakers slip

The plain-b substitution is universal among beginners, producing "buh-RAA," which collides with buraa, "bad." That makes breathy voice genuinely load-bearing here. Keep the folds vibrating through the lip closure and push extra air out as you release.