چشم قهوهای
“چشم قهوهای” (chashme gâghveyi) — brown eyes in Persian. Noun, level A1. There is no separate word for brown of eyes: they are simply "coffee-colored". Mine are, says the example. In a live sentence: “من چشم قهوهای دارم.” — I have brown eyes. Written with the characters چ, ش, م, ق, ه, و, ه, ا, ی. A word from the everyday Persian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Persian | چشم قهوهای |
| Read in Latin letters | chashme gâghveyi |
| Translation | brown eyes |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
There is no separate word for brown of eyes: they are simply "coffee-colored". Mine are, 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.
- من چشم قهوهای دارم.man chashme gâghveyi dâram.I have brown eyes.
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 “brown eyes” in Persian?
«چشم قهوهای», read “chashme gâghveyi”. In a live sentence: “من چشم قهوهای دارم.” — I have brown eyes. Noun, level A1; written with the characters چ, ش, م, ق, ه, و, ه, ا, ی.
How is “چشم قهوهای” written in Latin letters?
chashme gâghveyi. 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?
There is no separate word for brown of eyes: they are simply "coffee-colored". Mine are, 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.