بحری جہاز
“بحری جہاز” (bahri dzhahaz) — ship in Urdu. Noun, level A2. Literally "sea jahaz": the same jahaz as the plane — Urdu tells them apart by the first word, bahri for sea, hawai for air. The boat, kashti, is smaller and keeps to the shore. In a live sentence: “بحری جہاز پانی پر ہے” — The ship is on the water. Written with the characters ب, ح, ر, ی, ج, ہ, ا, ز. A word from the everyday Urdu course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Urdu | بحری جہاز |
| Read in Latin letters | bahri dzhahaz |
| Translation | ship |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "sea jahaz": the same jahaz as the plane — Urdu tells them apart by the first word, bahri for sea, hawai for air. The boat, kashti, is smaller and keeps to the shore
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.
- بحری جہاز پانی پر ہےbahri dzhahaz pani per haiThe ship is on the water
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 “ship” in Urdu?
«بحری جہاز», read “bahri dzhahaz”. In a live sentence: “بحری جہاز پانی پر ہے” — The ship is on the water. Noun, level A2; written with the characters ب, ح, ر, ی, ج, ہ, ا, ز.
How is “بحری جہاز” written in Latin letters?
bahri dzhahaz. 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?
Literally "sea jahaz": the same jahaz as the plane — Urdu tells them apart by the first word, bahri for sea, hawai for air. The boat, kashti, is smaller and keeps to the shore. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.