What it means
نمره (nomreh) means a grade, a score, or a numerical mark. Persian borrowed the word from Arabic نُمْرَة (numra), which itself traces back ultimately to Latin numerus. It is the everyday word for the number a teacher gives a student on a test or for a course grade on a transcript. A related phrase is نمرهی قبولی (nomre-ye qabuli), the passing grade. In informal speech people say نمره گرفتن (nomre gereftan) for getting a grade, or نمره دادن (nomre dâdan) for giving one.
How to use it
- نمرهی ریاضیم بیست شد. (Nomre-ye riyâziam bist shod.) “I got twenty out of twenty in math.”
- نمرهی قبولی چنده؟ (Nomre-ye qabuli chande?) “What is the passing grade?”
- معلم هنوز نمرهها رو نداده. (Mo’allem hanuz nomrehâ ro nadâde.) “The teacher has not given the grades yet.”
- نمرهام افتاد. (Nomream oftâd.) “My grade dropped.”
Cultural note
Iranian schools traditionally use a scale of zero to twenty, so a نمره of twenty (بیست) is the perfect score and a نمره of ten is typically the minimum passing mark. University grading follows a similar system. A student’s نمره carries significant social weight in Iranian families: exam results are often discussed openly among relatives, and a high average, called معدل (mo’addal), can influence university placement through the concours system. The word نمره also appears in non-academic contexts, such as rating a performance or scoring a competition, because its meaning of a numerical value is broadly understood.