Persian (فارسی)

Persian (fa, fas) is a world language. Wikidata records about 45M speakers. It is written in Arabic script and Cyrillic script. It is an official language in 1 country, including Iran.

Persian (Farsi in Iran, Dari in Afghanistan) is right-to-left with Arabic-based script; it has no grammatical gender.

Expect text translated from English into Persian to grow by roughly 15–30%, which matters for layouts, subtitles and page counts.

In the United States, 517,451 people aged 5+ speak Persian at home (Census ACS), and 194,481 of them (38%) speak English less than "very well" — a key indicator of demand for Persian translators and interpreters.

Translation guides

• English → Persian translation
• Persian → English translation

Where Persian is official

• Iran

Rates for Persian translation

Persian falls in our middle eastern & turkic band: roughly $0.09–$0.18 per word for general commercial work. These are indicative ranges, not quotes — specialised, certified and rush work costs more, and literary translation is usually priced per 1,000 words.

For context, the median salaried translator or interpreter in the US earned $60,170 in May 2025 (BLS). See salaries by state →

Where Persian is spoken in the US, state by state →