بخش اورژانس
“بخش اورژانس” (bakhshe ârzhans) — emergency room in Persian. Noun, level A1. The emergency department — bakhsh + orjoons. From evening till morning, says the example — that is how ER nights run. In a live sentence: “ما شب تا صبح در بخش اورژانس بودیم.” — We were in the emergency room from evening until morning. Written with the characters ب, خ, ش, ا, و, ر, ژ, ا, ن, س. A word from the everyday Persian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Persian | بخش اورژانس |
| Read in Latin letters | bakhshe ârzhans |
| Translation | emergency room |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The emergency department — bakhsh + orjoons. From evening till morning, says the example — that is how ER nights run
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.
- ما شب تا صبح در بخش اورژانس بودیم.mâ shab tâ sâbh dar bakhshe ârzhans budim.We were in the emergency room from evening until morning.
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 “emergency room” in Persian?
«بخش اورژانس», read “bakhshe ârzhans”. In a live sentence: “ما شب تا صبح در بخش اورژانس بودیم.” — We were in the emergency room from evening until morning. Noun, level A1; written with the characters ب, خ, ش, ا, و, ر, ژ, ا, ن, س.
How is “بخش اورژانس” written in Latin letters?
bakhshe ârzhans. 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?
The emergency department — bakhsh + orjoons. From evening till morning, says the example — that is how ER nights run. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.