Holidays
Pack your bags. Learn the Persian words for holidays, travel and the places you go, each with its script, a transliteration to help you say it, and the English meaning.
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Holidays 🏖️
Holidays are one of the topics you will be asked to talk and write about: **where you go, how you get there, and what you do**. Persian is written **right to left**, and the letters join up. Every word below is shown with its **script**, a **transliteration** in brackets to help you say it, and the **English** meaning.
Key words (1) 🗂️
Start with four holiday words:
Match each word to its meaning
- تعطیلات (tatilat)
- سفر (safar)
- دریا (darya)
- تابستان (tabestan)
- holidays
- a trip, a journey
- the sea
- summer
What does it mean?
What does the Persian word دریا (darya) mean?
- the sea
- summer
- a trip, a journey
- holidays
Key words (2) ✈️
Now four more words you need for a holiday:
Match each word to its meaning
- هواپیما (havapeyma)
- قطار (ghatar)
- چمدان (chamedan)
- کوه (kuh)
- aeroplane
- train
- suitcase
- mountain
Getting there
Select the TWO Persian words that are ways of travelling.
- هواپیما (havapeyma)
- قطار (ghatar)
- چمدان (chamedan)
- کوه (kuh)
Choose the Persian word
In Persian, the word for 'the sea' is _____, and the word for 'summer' is _____.
Four letters Arabic does not have 💡
Persian uses the Arabic alphabet plus **four extra letters** for sounds Arabic does not have: **پ (p)**, **چ (ch)**, **ژ (zh)** and **گ (g)**. You have already met two of them: **چمدان (chamedan)**, a suitcase, and **پدر (pedar)**, father. Spotting one of these four letters tells you at once that you are reading Persian and not Arabic. Watch out for borrowed words too: **هتل (hotel)** is exactly what it sounds like.
Which letter?
The word چمدان (chamedan) begins with چ. What does that letter tell you?
- It is one of the four letters Persian adds to the Arabic alphabet
- It marks the word as a plural
- It shows the word is written left to right
- It is a letter Persian borrowed from English
Places and transport 🗺️
Holiday words fall into two groups. Sorting them this way makes them easier to recall, and adds two more words: **جزیره (jazire)**, an island, and **فرودگاه (forudgah)**, the airport.
Planning a holiday 🧭
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One more
The Persian word for 'a suitcase' is _____, the word for 'a mountain' is _____, and the word for 'an island' is _____.
Your turn ✍️
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