کپڑے کی کلپ
“کپڑے کی کلپ” (kapre ki klip) — clothes peg in Urdu. Noun, level A1. Literally "a clip for clothes": laundry dries on the roof here, and many pegs are needed. The wind is the chief thief: without them it will carry off a pillowcase. In a live sentence: “کپڑے کی کلپ کہاں ہے؟ ہوا تیز ہے” — Where is the peg? The wind is strong. Written with the characters ک, پ, ڑ, ے, ک, ی, ک, ل, پ.
In short
| Written in Urdu | کپڑے کی کلپ |
| Read in Latin letters | kapre ki klip |
| Translation | clothes peg |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "a clip for clothes": laundry dries on the roof here, and many pegs are needed. The wind is the chief thief: without them it will carry off a pillowcase
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.
- کپڑے کی کلپ کہاں ہے؟ ہوا تیز ہےkapre ki klip kahan hai? hawa tez haiWhere is the peg? The wind is strong
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 “clothes peg” in Urdu?
«کپڑے کی کلپ», read “kapre ki klip”. In a live sentence: “کپڑے کی کلپ کہاں ہے؟ ہوا تیز ہے” — Where is the peg? The wind is strong. Noun, level A1; written with the characters ک, پ, ڑ, ے, ک, ی, ک, ل, پ.
How is “کپڑے کی کلپ” written in Latin letters?
kapre ki klip. 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 "a clip for clothes": laundry dries on the roof here, and many pegs are needed. The wind is the chief thief: without them it will carry off a pillowcase. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.