نوازنده خیابانی
“نوازنده خیابانی” (nâvâzânde khiyabâni) — street musician in Persian. Noun, level A1. The player word you know plus the street one. Plays in an underpass or on a square, a box nearby: whoever gave how much. One on the square, says the example. In a live sentence: “نوازنده خیابانی در میدان است.” — A street musician on the square. Written with the characters ن, و, ا, ز, ن, د, ه, خ, ی, ا, ب, ا… A word from the everyday Persian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Persian | نوازنده خیابانی |
| Read in Latin letters | nâvâzânde khiyabâni |
| Translation | street musician |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The player word you know plus the street one. Plays in an underpass or on a square, a box nearby: whoever gave how much. One on the square, 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.
- نوازنده خیابانی در میدان است.nâvâzânde khiyabâni dar meydân ast.A street musician on the square.
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 “street musician” in Persian?
«نوازنده خیابانی», read “nâvâzânde khiyabâni”. In a live sentence: “نوازنده خیابانی در میدان است.” — A street musician on the square. Noun, level A1; written with the characters ن, و, ا, ز, ن, د, ه, خ, ی, ا, ب, ا…
How is “نوازنده خیابانی” written in Latin letters?
nâvâzânde khiyabâni. 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?
The player word you know plus the street one. Plays in an underpass or on a square, a box nearby: whoever gave how much. One on the square, 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.