خیابان یکطرفه
“خیابان یکطرفه” (khiyabâne yek-tarâfe) — one-way street in Persian. Noun, level B1. Here the street is named, not the movement: "a one-sided street". The side word is a cousin of the courtesy word too. This street is one-way, says the example. In a live sentence: “این خیابون یکطرفهست” — This street is one-way. Written with the characters خ, ی, ا, ب, ا, ن, ی, ک, ط, ر, ف, ه. A word from the everyday Persian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Persian | خیابان یکطرفه |
| Read in Latin letters | khiyabâne yek-tarâfe |
| Translation | one-way street |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Here the street is named, not the movement: "a one-sided street". The side word is a cousin of the courtesy word too. This street is one-way, 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.
- این خیابون یکطرفهستin khiyabân yek-tarâfestThis street is one-way
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 “one-way street” in Persian?
«خیابان یکطرفه», read “khiyabâne yek-tarâfe”. In a live sentence: “این خیابون یکطرفهست” — This street is one-way. Noun, level B1; written with the characters خ, ی, ا, ب, ا, ن, ی, ک, ط, ر, ف, ه.
How is “خیابان یکطرفه” written in Latin letters?
khiyabâne yek-tarâfe. 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?
Here the street is named, not the movement: "a one-sided street". The side word is a cousin of the courtesy word too. This street is one-way, 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.