اونچی آواز
“اونچی آواز” (unchi awaz) — loud sound in Urdu. Noun, level A1. Literally "high sound": the loud is "high" — the same ooncha as about a house and a mountain. A shout, a signal and thunder are all oonchi aawaz. In a live sentence: “چھت سے اونچی آواز آئی” — A loud sound came from the roof. Written with the characters ا, و, ن, چ, ی, آ, و, ا, ز. A word from the everyday Urdu course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Urdu | اونچی آواز |
| Read in Latin letters | unchi awaz |
| Translation | loud sound |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "high sound": the loud is "high" — the same ooncha as about a house and a mountain. A shout, a signal and thunder are all oonchi aawaz
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.
- چھت سے اونچی آواز آئیchhat se unchi awaz aiA loud sound came from the roof
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 “loud sound” in Urdu?
«اونچی آواز», read “unchi awaz”. In a live sentence: “چھت سے اونچی آواز آئی” — A loud sound came from the roof. Noun, level A1; written with the characters ا, و, ن, چ, ی, آ, و, ا, ز.
How is “اونچی آواز” written in Latin letters?
unchi awaz. 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 "high sound": the loud is "high" — the same ooncha as about a house and a mountain. A shout, a signal and thunder are all oonchi aawaz. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.