میکروسکوپ
“میکروسکوپ” (mikrâskâp) — microscope in Persian. Noun, level B1. Read almost as at home, stress on the last syllable. The telescope and the periscope are built the same way: one old seeing tail lives here too. This one is for school, says the example. In a live sentence: “این میکروسکوپ برای مدرسه است.” — This microscope is for school. Written with the characters م, ی, ک, ر, و, س, ک, و, پ. A word from the everyday Persian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Persian | میکروسکوپ |
| Read in Latin letters | mikrâskâp |
| Translation | microscope |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Read almost as at home, stress on the last syllable. The telescope and the periscope are built the same way: one old seeing tail lives here too. This one is for school, 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 میکروسکوپ برای مدرسه است.in mikrâskâp barâe mâdrese ast.This microscope is for school.
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 “microscope” in Persian?
«میکروسکوپ», read “mikrâskâp”. In a live sentence: “این میکروسکوپ برای مدرسه است.” — This microscope is for school. Noun, level B1; written with the characters م, ی, ک, ر, و, س, ک, و, پ.
How is “میکروسکوپ” written in Latin letters?
mikrâskâp. 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?
Read almost as at home, stress on the last syllable. The telescope and the periscope are built the same way: one old seeing tail lives here too. This one is for school, 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.