Finglish to Farsi and Persian to Finglish
This free converter works both ways: type Finglish or Pinglish in any spelling to get Persian (Farsi) script to copy, or paste Farsi script to read it in English letters.
Swap flips the box, and pasting Persian letters flips it for you. The English meaning comes with every answer to check it, and you never need a Persian keyboard.
Convert Finglish to Persian script
Type your Finglish, tap Convert and the Persian script comes back large and ready to copy, with the English meaning under it so you can check it said what you meant.
It changes the letters, not the language: the words you typed are the words you get, written in the Persian alphabet. A few you can try, as the converter writes them:
Convert Persian script to English letters
Paste Persian script into the box and it turns to Persian to Finglish by itself. Tap Convert and the Finglish comes back as the big line, with the English meaning under it. Copy it in one tap. It works on a word, a sentence or a few lines of a song.
Persian script mostly leaves out the short vowels (a, e, o), so the letters of a word do not say exactly how to read it. A letter-by-letter swap would guess. This converter reads the whole line, picks the vowels that make a real word, and writes it the way people say it in Tehran.
How to type Finglish so the conversion is right
A few habits make the script come out the way you meant.
Spell it how it sounds
Write khoob, not good. Use kh, sh, ch, gh and zh for the Persian sounds, and oo for the sound in "food".
Spoken, not formal
Type the way people talk: mikham, khoone, chetori. The script follows the same words.
Keep words apart
Put a space between words, and write one line at a time, up to 200 letters.
Any common spelling works
Khoob or Khub, Merci or Mersi. You do not need the house spelling to get the script.
Why a word can come out differently than you meant
Persian has several letters for the same sound. Salam and Sobh both start with an s, and they are written with two different letters: سلام and صبح. Finglish only shows the sound, so the converter has to work out which real word you mean from the whole line.
Going the other way, the vowels depend on the word. The letters مرد are mard, "man", in one sentence and mord, "he died", in another. Reading the whole line is how the right one is chosen, and the English line under the answer lets you check it.
If a word comes out wrong, add a word beside it so the line is clearer, or try a more common spelling. For a name, which has no dictionary entry, check the English line under the script.
Persian letters and their English-letter sounds (kh, sh, zh, gh, ch)
These are the Persian letters that need more than one English letter, with an everyday word for each. Learn six and a lot of Finglish stops looking strange.
To read the alphabet itself, go through words you can already say: every word page in the phrasebook shows its Persian letters next to the Finglish, so each letter is attached to a sound and a meaning. Module 1 is free with no signup and a good place to start.
- خkha rough h from the back of the throat, like the ch in "loch"Khoob خوب = good
- شshas in "shoe"Shab شب = night
- ژzhlike the s in "measure"Zhaket ژاکت = jacket
- چchas in "chai"Chai چای = tea
- غ / قgha throaty g, a little like the French r. Both letters sound the same in TehranGhahve قهوه = coffee
- آathe long a, as in "father". Finglish writes it aAb آب = water
Copy the script into WhatsApp, Instagram, email or a search
Tap Copy under the script and paste it into the app where you need Persian. Relatives who read only Persian letters can read it as it is, and a search in Persian script often finds pages that a search in Finglish would miss.
Paste into the message box itself and the letters join on their own. Some design apps need right-to-left text turned on first.
If you will type Persian often, add a Persian keyboard: on a phone, open Settings, find Keyboards or Languages and add Persian. For a one-off message, skip all that: type it here in Finglish, copy the script and paste it.
Questions about Finglish and Persian script
Type it in Finglish, spelled how it sounds, into the box on this page and tap Convert. You get the Persian script back to copy, so you never need a Persian keyboard.
Paste the Persian into the box. It turns to Persian to Finglish on its own; tap Convert and you get it back in English letters, spelled the way it is said, so you can read it aloud straight away.
Persian script has several letters for one sound, and Finglish shows only the sound. Add a word beside it, or try a more common spelling, so the whole line points to the word you mean.
Write them as those letter pairs: kh for the rough h, gh for the throaty g, sh as in "shoe", ch as in "chai", zh like the s in "measure". Oo is the sound in "food".
Transliteration writes the same words in other letters. A translation changes the language. This page converts letters both ways, and the English line under each answer is the translation, there so you can check the words.
Persian script usually writes only the long vowels, so readers supply the short a, e and o from knowing the word. The converter reads the whole line the same way and picks the vowels that make real words.
No. Scholarly systems use marks such as ā and ī so that every letter can be reversed. Finglish uses plain English letters in the spoken form, which is what people actually type to each other.
Open Settings, find Keyboards or Languages and input, and add Persian. Once it is added you can switch to it from the globe or keyboard key while you type.
Names are written by sound, so one name can have more than one correct Persian spelling. Check the English line under the script, and ask a Persian speaker to confirm anything formal.
Yes. Type your message in Finglish, copy the Persian script and paste it into WhatsApp, iMessage or email. It is the same message in the letters they read.
Yes, a line or two at a time, up to 200 letters. Paste the next lines after the first and keep going. Each conversion counts as one try.
This changes letters, not language. Your Finglish words come back as the same words in Persian script. To change English into Persian, use the English to Farsi page.
No. Convert 5 lines a day with no signup, either way round, and more with an account. Copying the result is always free.
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