تعطیلات
“تعطیلات” (ta'telât) — vacation, school break in Persian. Noun, level A2. Literally "closings": vacation here is the days when everything is shut. In the middle of the word sits the same little catch as in "after". The spring one is near, says the example. In a live sentence: “تعطیلات نوروز نزدیک است” — The new year vacation is close. Written with the characters ت, ع, ط, ی, ل, ا, ت. A word from the everyday Persian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Persian | تعطیلات |
| Read in Latin letters | ta'telât |
| Translation | vacation, school break |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "closings": vacation here is the days when everything is shut. In the middle of the word sits the same little catch as in "after". The spring one is near, 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.
- تعطیلات نوروز نزدیک استta'telâte nâvruz nazdik astThe new year vacation is close
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 “vacation, school break” in Persian?
«تعطیلات», read “ta'telât”. In a live sentence: “تعطیلات نوروز نزدیک است” — The new year vacation is close. Noun, level A2; written with the characters ت, ع, ط, ی, ل, ا, ت.
How is “تعطیلات” written in Latin letters?
ta'telât. 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 "closings": vacation here is the days when everything is shut. In the middle of the word sits the same little catch as in "after". The spring one is near, 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.