گشاد
“گشاد” (gâsâd) — loose, wide in Persian. Adjective, level A2. Wide, loose. About clothes it is a compliment: it sits free, does not cling. The skirt is loose, says the example. In a live sentence: “دامن گشاد است” — The skirt is loose. Written with the characters گ, ش, ا, د. A word from the everyday Persian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Persian | گشاد |
| Read in Latin letters | gâsâd |
| Translation | loose, wide |
| Part of speech | adjective |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Wide, loose. About clothes it is a compliment: it sits free, does not cling. The skirt is loose, 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.
- دامن گشاد استdâmâne gâsâd astThe skirt is loose
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 “loose, wide” in Persian?
«گشاد», read “gâsâd”. In a live sentence: “دامن گشاد است” — The skirt is loose. Adjective, level A2; written with the characters گ, ش, ا, د.
How is “گشاد” written in Latin letters?
gâsâd. 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?
Wide, loose. About clothes it is a compliment: it sits free, does not cling. The skirt is loose, 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.