congergs, I thought I would wait for Persian speakers to respond but as there has not been any reply so far........
I was under the impression that this word would be written as تلویژیون but the vowel change from u:n to on could be due to French influence. A lot of such words into Persian have come via French as opposed to English.
I was under the impression that this word would be written as تلویژیون but the vowel change from u:n to on could be due to French influence. A lot of such words into Persian have come via French as opposed to English.
Thanks for the answer.
It makes sense but I wonder why they don't use یُن to represent yon/jon, which seems to be more accurate. As for the short "i" sound I can only guess that they use ی since they lack a separate diacritic/letter for the short "i". But still, I'm open to further illumination.
It makes sense but I wonder why they don't use یُن to represent yon/jon, which seems to be more accurate. As for the short "i" sound I can only guess that they use ی since they lack a separate diacritic/letter for the short "i". But still, I'm open to further illumination.
I am not sure if یُن would accurately represent the final -on sound and that is why ون is used. There is a short "i" which is represent by this sign... say in the Persian word... خِنگ . This is not a horizontal line but more a short line at an angle similar to this / but not as steep.
Hello, cogergs! The spelling you suggest would work except it isn’t used among Iranians. و as vowel occasionally sounds like the ‘o’ in ‘born’, almost, in words such as,
خورشید (the sun).
گود (deep).
دوره (revision).
کولی (gypsy).
Hi mannoushka, in the above, only و in خورشید (the sun) sounds the same as 'o' in té-lé-vizi-on, in the rest o is longer, isn't that right?
گود/gôd (deep)
دوره/dôré (revision)
کولی/kôli (gypsy)
Compare قوم/qôm and قم/Qom
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Hello, PersoLatin. I see now that there is a difference, even though it was so slight as to pass by me undetected at first. Actually my only object was to show that in none of the words in my example did the و have an ‘oo’ sound such as you would hear pronounced in خوب, or شور. Or is this distinction totally irrelevant to the original question? I don’t really fully understand the question, I admit.
Yes I understand that.
I wasn't too clear about the question either but other replies made it clearer.
ٰInteresting to see that in all the words listed apart from خورشید, the vowel after the initial consonant is what is termed as "dipthong" and is normally represented as "au". Dari speakers make a very prounced differentiation of this vowel, along with the other dipthong "ai" as in دیر dair (monastery) and شیطان Shaitaan. It seems that in Iranian (Tehrani) Persian, the "au" dipthong has shifted to a majhuul like sound "o" and the "ai" has shifted to "ey".
I would n't worry about how the words are supposed to be pronounced or should be pronounced. Just follow the speech pattern of native speakers and you should be ok.
Yes و can be pronounced in four ways at least, in mainstream modern Persian:
1) short o - خورشید خوش خورش
2) long o - گور/gur, شوم/ŝum, زور/zur
3) diphthong - گود ,قوم ,شورا
4) pronounced as v - وزغ/vazaq (toad) اول/avval (first) جو/javv (atmosphere),
To make matters worse but that's not the intention, بود can be pronounced as bud, bod or bovad, depending on the register and context, where bud (formal/colloquial) and bod (poetic) mean "was", and bovad (poetic) (same as باشد) is in the subjunctive form meaning [if] it were/were it.
EDIT: Correction: ‘bod’ is usually written as بُد and not بود, see post #15.
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Never knew بود is also pronounced as "bod". I am aware of "buud", "bud", buwad" and "bawad".
Bovad, as in توانا بود هرکه دانا بود
Bod, as in
سیامک بدش نام و فرخنده بود
Bod, as in
سیامک بدش نام و فرخنده بود
So, is n't بود here buud/bood?
سیامک بدش نام و فرخنده بود
کیومرث را دل بدو زنده بود
Oh, sorry, I’ve confused by choosing this examle.
It’s سیامک بدش نام , his name was Siaamak.
It’s سیامک بدش نام , his name was Siaamak.
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^^ Another example of بُد/bod
ای دریغا اشک من دریا بُدی
تا نثار دلبر زیبا شدی
ای دریغا اشک من دریا بُدی
تا نثار دلبر زیبا شدی
Thank you PersoLatin. When you said بود was also pronounced "bod", I equated it to rhyme with "road". I would transcribe بُد as "bud" but that's just the way we represent "pesh" (your modern piish) to convey the older Persian "u" vowel.
I can't imagine how you'd pronounce it based on "bud", however the nearest pronunciation of 'o' in بُد/bod, in an English word, is /o/ in "info" but shorter as 'bod' ends in a consonant.
Spelling and example words[edit]
For Western Persian:
| Phoneme (in IPA) | Letter | Romanization | Example(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| /æ/ | ـَ ,ـَه; | a | /næ/ نه "no" |
| /ɒː/ | ـَا, آ ,ىٰ; | ā | /tɒː/ تا "until" |
| /e̞/ | ـِ ,ـِه; | e | /ke/ که "that" |
| /iː/ | ـِیـ ,ـِی; | ī | /ʃiːr/ شیر "milk" |
| /o/ | ـُ ,ـُو; | o | /to/ تو "you" (singular) |
| /uː/ | ـُو; | ū | /zuːd/ زود "early" |
| Early New Persian | Dari | Tajiki | Western Persian | Example | Tajik | Romanization | English |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| /a/ | /a/ | /a/ | /æ/ | شب | шаб | šab | night |
| /aː/ | /ɒ̝ː/ | /ɔ/ | /ɒː/ | باد | бод | bād | wind |
| /i/ | /e/ | /ɪ/ | /e/ | دل | дил | dil | heart |
| /iː/ | /iː/ | /iː/ | شیر | шир | šīr | milk | |
| /eː/ | /e̞ː/ | /e̞/ | شیر | шер | šer | lion | |
| /aj/ | /aj/ | /aj/ | /ej/ | کی | кай | kay | when |
| /u/ | /o/ | /ʊ/ | /o/ | گل | гул | gul | flower |
| /uː/ | /uː/ | /uː/ | نور | нур | nūr | light | |
| /oː/ | /ö̞ː/ | /ɵ/ | روز | рӯз | roz | day | |
| /aw/ | /aw/ | /av/ | /ow/ | نو | нав | naw | new |
I was trying hard to explain how it is pronounced in modern Persian, classical Persian wasn’t on my mind in this instance.
But while we are here, could you tell me if you believe there is or was a difference between the pronunciation of بود and بد, in classical Persian.
But while we are here, could you tell me if you believe there is or was a difference between the pronunciation of بود and بد, in classical Persian.
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Yes, there was. The former “buud” rhyming with the English word boot and the latter “bud” rhyming with the English word put.
The Classical Persian pronunciation is the one that is pretty much what the Afghans, the Tajiks and Persian knowing people from Pakistan and India employ.
The Classical Persian pronunciation is the one that is pretty much what the Afghans, the Tajiks and Persian knowing people from Pakistan and India employ.