Dictionary
noun خواهَر / xâhar
IPA: /xɒːhær/
- sister
From our corpus
و زهرا خانم، خواهر بزرگ من، که 13 سالشه
va zahrâ xânom، xâhar-e bozorg-e man، ke ____ sâleše
And miss Zahra, my older sister, who is 13 years old
اینه که بچه یک خواهر یا برادر کوچیک تر داره از جنس مخالف.
ine ke bačče yek xâhar yâ barâdar-e kučik tar dâre az jens-e moxâlef.
Wiktionary- sister
- sissy
- When referring to older family members, both بزرگ (bozorg) and کلان (kalân) are correct, but the former is more common in Iran.
- When referring to older family members, both بزرگ (buzurg) and کلان (kalān) are correct, but the latter is more common in Afghanistan.
- In many dialects, cases of word final ـا (-ā) may be optionally shortened to ـه (-a), e.g. بابا (bābā) > بابه (bāba).
- In many dialects, terms ending in ـه (-a) or ـا (-ā) may have an epenthetic ـی (-y) added (unrelated to ezafe), e.g. عمه (amma) > عمی (ammay).