LingoflyՋրափոս
- Ջրափոսchrap'ospuddle
“Ջրափոս” (chrap'os) — puddle in Western Armenian. Noun, level A2. Three syllables: a short ə slips in after the ջ, and the փ is a p on a breath: chə-ra-P'OS. In a live sentence: “Երեխան ջրափոսին մէջ ցատկեց” (yerekhan chrap'osin mech tsadgets) — The child jumped into the puddle. Written with the characters Ջ, ր, ա, փ, ո, ս. A word from the everyday Western Armenian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Western Armenian | Ջրափոս (chrap'os) |
| Read in Latin letters | chrap'os |
| Translation | puddle |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
How to pronounce it
Three syllables: a short ə slips in after the ջ, and the փ is a p on a breath: chə-ra-P'OS
Why it looks that way
ջուր (chur) is water, փոս (p'os) a pit: literally a 'water pit'. In compounds ջուր (chur) loses its ու (u) and becomes ջր-, the same as in ջրհեղեղ (chrheghegh), a flood
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- Երեխան ջրափոսին մէջ ցատկեցyerekhan chrap'osin mech tsadgetsThe child jumped into the puddle
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “puddle” in Western Armenian?
«Ջրափոս» (chrap'os), read “chrap'os”. Three syllables: a short ə slips in after the ջ, and the փ is a p on a breath: chə-ra-P'OS. In a live sentence: “Երեխան ջրափոսին մէջ ցատկեց” (yerekhan chrap'osin mech tsadgets) — The child jumped into the puddle. Noun, level A2; written with the characters Ջ, ր, ա, փ, ո, ս.
How is “Ջրափոս” (chrap'os) written in Latin letters?
chrap'os. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Ջուր (chur) is water, փոս (p'os) a pit: literally a 'water pit'. In compounds ջուր (chur) loses its ու (u) and becomes ջր-, the same as in ջրհեղեղ (chrheghegh), a flood. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.