آخر سر
“آخر سر” (âkhare sar) — at the tail end, towards the close in Persian. Phrase, level B1. Literally "the end of the head": the very tail of a deed, a day, a feast. Not the outcome — precisely the last minutes. Towards the close of the day we were all tired, says the example. In a live sentence: “آخر سر روز، همه خسته بودیم” — Towards the close of the day we were all tired. Written with the characters آ, خ, ر, س, ر.
In short
| Written in Persian | آخر سر |
| Read in Latin letters | âkhare sar |
| Translation | at the tail end, towards the close |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "the end of the head": the very tail of a deed, a day, a feast. Not the outcome — precisely the last minutes. Towards the close of the day we were all tired, says the example
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- آخر سر روز، همه خسته بودیمâkhare sare ruz, hamme khaste budimTowards the close of the day we were all tired
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “at the tail end, towards the close” in Persian?
«آخر سر», read “âkhare sar”. In a live sentence: “آخر سر روز، همه خسته بودیم” — Towards the close of the day we were all tired. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters آ, خ, ر, س, ر.
How is “آخر سر” written in Latin letters?
âkhare sar. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Literally "the end of the head": the very tail of a deed, a day, a feast. Not the outcome — precisely the last minutes. Towards the close of the day we were all tired, says the example. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.