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“piyoz” — onion in Uzbek. Noun, level A2, topic — food and drink. Its own word, and in the kitchen it comes first: no dish begins without onion. Cutting brings fewer tears if the onion is cold. In a live sentence: “Oshga piyoz kerak” — Pilaf needs onion. One of 176 words in the set “food and drink” in the Uzbek course.
In short
| Written in Uzbek | piyoz |
| Translation | onion |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Its own word, and in the kitchen it comes first: no dish begins without onion. Cutting brings fewer tears if the onion is cold.
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.
- Oshga piyoz kerakPilaf needs onion
Nearby words: food and drink
A menu, a market, a shop sign, the question “what is this?”. Food is the most frequent subject of the first weeks and the safest excuse to start talking.
- choyteach is the ch of chair, y is the y of yes
- suvwaterShort and everywhere: from tea to the road. Raw tap water is not drunk while travelling.
- nonflatbreadThe Uzbek flatbread is a world of its own: patyr, obi-non, each kind its own. Non also means food in general.
- oshpilafThe main dish of the country: rice, carrot, mutton and a whole ritual around the cauldron. Tashkent pilaf is cooked at dawn.
- guruchriceThe base of pilaf: rice in the local kitchen is not a side dish but the meal itself. The devzira sort — reddish and fat — is prized above all.
- goʻshtmeatoʻ in the first syllable
- baliqfishthe deep q at the end
- sabzavotvegetablesVegetables are half of pilaf: carrots are cut large and stewed long. The bazaar row bears the same name.
Test yourself
Five questions from the same set — “food and drink”. Recalling a spelling from meaning is harder than knowing a familiar word on sight, and therefore more useful.
- How do you say “onion” in Uzbek?
Its own word, and in the kitchen it comes first: no dish begins without onion. Cutting brings fewer tears if the onion is cold.
- How do you say “rice” in Uzbek?
The base of pilaf: rice in the local kitchen is not a side dish but the meal itself. The devzira sort — reddish and fat — is prized above all.
- How do you say “flatbread” in Uzbek?
The Uzbek flatbread is a world of its own: patyr, obi-non, each kind its own. Non also means food in general.
- How do you say “vegetables” in Uzbek?
Vegetables are half of pilaf: carrots are cut large and stewed long. The bazaar row bears the same name.
- How do you say “food” in Uzbek?
Food as a meal: "ovqat yemoq" — "food to-eat" — and that is not a slip; the verb stands at the end.
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 “onion” in Uzbek?
«piyoz». In a live sentence: “Oshga piyoz kerak” — Pilaf needs onion. Noun, level A2, from the set “food and drink”.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Its own word, and in the kitchen it comes first: no dish begins without onion. Cutting brings fewer tears if the onion is cold. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.