What School Is Like
Learn the Persian words for school: the teacher, the lesson, the book and more. Every word comes with its script, a transliteration to help you say it, and the English meaning.
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School in Persian 🏫
This topic is about **school**. Every word comes with its **Persian script**, a **transliteration** in brackets to help you say it, and the **English** meaning. Persian is written **right to left**.
Key words 📖
Learn these school words:
Match each Persian word to its English meaning
- مدرسه (madrese)
- معلم (moallem)
- شاگرد (shagerd)
- کتاب (ketab)
- school
- teacher
- student
- book
Which word?
Which Persian word means 'a teacher'?
- معلم (moallem)
- شاگرد (shagerd)
- کتاب (ketab)
- کلاس (kelas)
How the script works 📝
Two things about Persian script. First, like Arabic, it is written from **right to left**. Second, Persian uses the **Perso-Arabic** alphabet: it shares most letters with Arabic but adds four of its own, including **پ** (the p sound) and **گ** (the g sound). Learn each word with its transliteration to help you say it.
School words
Select the TWO words connected with school.
- درس (dars)
- امتحان (emtehan)
- پدر (pedar)
- مادر (madar)
Match each Persian word to how it is said
- کلاس
- قلم
- مشق
- شاگرد
- kelas
- ghalam
- mashgh
- shagerd
How do you say it?
The school مدرسه is said _____. The teacher معلم is said _____. A book کتاب is said _____. A lesson درس is said _____.
Order the school day
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Which word?
Which Persian word means 'an exam'?
- امتحان (emtehan)
- قلم (ghalam)
- کلاس (kelas)
- شاگرد (shagerd)
Complete the sentence
At school مدرسه (said _____), a student شاگرد (said _____) studies a lesson درس (said _____) with a teacher معلم (said _____).
A school day
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Use what you know
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Well done 🌟
You have met the key Persian school words: مدرسه (madrese, school), معلم (moallem, teacher), شاگرد (shagerd, student), درس (dars, lesson), کتاب (ketab, book) and امتحان (emtehan, exam). Keep practising the script and the transliteration together.