گرم

Havā emruz khayli garm ast.

The weather today is very warm.

گرم (garm) means “warm” or “hot” in Persian. It is used for physical temperature (weather, food, a room) and also metaphorically for warmth of personality – yek ādam-e garm (یک آدم گرم) means “a warm-hearted person.”

How do you remember گرم?

Think of a GARMENT – a warm winter coat, a thick sweater, a wool scarf. The English word “garment” begins with the same sound as garm, and the whole purpose of a warm garment is to keep you warm. When you see someone bundled up in a heavy sweater, think: garm.

GARMENT → گرم

This is actually more than a memory trick

The similarity between garm and English “warm” is not just a happy coincidence. Both words descend from the same Proto-Indo-European root *gwher- meaning “to warm.” Persian and English are distant cousins in the Indo-European language family, and garm is genuinely related to English “warm” – though the connection goes back roughly 6,000 years.

Other cognates from the same root: Latin formus (warm, whence “fervent” and “thermo-“), Greek thermós (warm, source of “thermometer”), Sanskrit gharma (heat).

How do you use گرم in a sentence?

هوا امروز خیلی گرم است.

In chāi garm ast?

Is this tea warm?

این چای گرم است؟