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“lugʻat” — dictionary in Uzbek. Noun, level A2. A rasped gʻ in lugʻat. In a live sentence: “Yangi soʻzlar lugʻatda.” — The new words are in the dictionary. A word from the everyday Uzbek course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Uzbek | lugʻat |
| Translation | dictionary |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
How to pronounce it
a rasped gʻ in lugʻat
Why it looks that way
An Arabic word, like half the bookish speech. The explanatory dictionary of the language is called shortly — lugʻat, and it is on every shelf.
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.
- Yangi soʻzlar lugʻatda.The new words are in the dictionary.
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 “dictionary” in Uzbek?
«lugʻat». A rasped gʻ in lugʻat. In a live sentence: “Yangi soʻzlar lugʻatda.” — The new words are in the dictionary. Noun, level A2.
Why does this word look the way it does?
An Arabic word, like half the bookish speech. The explanatory dictionary of the language is called shortly — lugʻat, and it is on every shelf. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.