اتاق پرو
“اتاق پرو” (âtâghe pâr) — fitting room in Persian. Noun, level A2. Literally "room of trying on". Ask where it is — the question of every shop, says the example. In a live sentence: “اتاق پرو کجاست؟” — Where is the fitting room? Written with the characters ا, ت, ا, ق, پ, ر, و. A word from the everyday Persian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Persian | اتاق پرو |
| Read in Latin letters | âtâghe pâr |
| Translation | fitting room |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "room of trying on". Ask where it is — the question of every shop, 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.
- اتاق پرو کجاست؟âtâghe pâr kâdzhâst؟Where is the fitting room?
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 “fitting room” in Persian?
«اتاق پرو», read “âtâghe pâr”. In a live sentence: “اتاق پرو کجاست؟” — Where is the fitting room? Noun, level A2; written with the characters ا, ت, ا, ق, پ, ر, و.
How is “اتاق پرو” written in Latin letters?
âtâghe pâr. 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 "room of trying on". Ask where it is — the question of every shop, 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.