پلے لسٹ
“پلے لسٹ” (ple list) — playlist in Urdu. Noun, level A1. An international word written in the local script: the list of songs for the road. In a live sentence: “میری پلے لسٹ میں دس گانے ہیں” — My playlist has ten songs. Written with the characters پ, ل, ے, ل, س, ٹ. A word from the everyday Urdu course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Urdu | پلے لسٹ |
| Read in Latin letters | ple list |
| Translation | playlist |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
An international word written in the local script: the list of songs for the road
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.
- میری پلے لسٹ میں دس گانے ہیںmeri ple list main das gane hainMy playlist has ten songs
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 “playlist” in Urdu?
«پلے لسٹ», read “ple list”. In a live sentence: “میری پلے لسٹ میں دس گانے ہیں” — My playlist has ten songs. Noun, level A1; written with the characters پ, ل, ے, ل, س, ٹ.
How is “پلے لسٹ” written in Latin letters?
ple list. 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?
An international word written in the local script: the list of songs for the road. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.