کشاورز
“کشاورز” (keshâvarz) — farmer in Persian. Noun, level A2. The z here sounds as z: keshavarz, stress on the last syllable. In a live sentence: “کشاورز صبح زود از خانه بیرون میرود.” — The farmer leaves the house early in the morning. Written with the characters ک, ش, ا, و, ر, ز. A word from the everyday Persian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Persian | کشاورز |
| Read in Latin letters | keshâvarz |
| Translation | farmer |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
How to pronounce it
the z here sounds as z: keshavarz, stress on the last syllable
Why it looks that way
Literally "the one who sows": the sowing. The village goes by its own word here, and the fields around the towns feed the whole market. The farmer leaves the house early in the morning, 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.
- کشاورز صبح زود از خانه بیرون میرود.keshavarz sâbhe zud az khane birune mi-ravad.The farmer leaves the house early in the 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 “farmer” in Persian?
«کشاورز», read “keshâvarz”. The z here sounds as z: keshavarz, stress on the last syllable. In a live sentence: “کشاورز صبح زود از خانه بیرون میرود.” — The farmer leaves the house early in the morning. Noun, level A2; written with the characters ک, ش, ا, و, ر, ز.
How is “کشاورز” written in Latin letters?
keshâvarz. 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 one who sows": the sowing. The village goes by its own word here, and the fields around the towns feed the whole market. The farmer leaves the house early in the morning, 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.