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Farrukh is an apprenticeapprentice (noun)A person learning a skill by working with an expert.≈ Synonym: trainee🇺🇿UZ: shogird🇷🇺RU: ученик trainingtrain (verb)To learn the skills for a job.≈ Synonym: learning🇺🇿UZ: o'rgatilayotgan🇷🇺RU: обучающийся to becomebecome (verb)To start to be something.≈ Synonym: turn into🇺🇿UZ: bo'lmoq🇷🇺RU: стать a bakerbaker (noun)A person who makes bread professionally.≈ Synonym: bread-maker🇺🇿UZ: novvoy🇷🇺RU: пекарь, and today he's learninglearn (verb)To gain knowledge or a skill.≈ Synonym: studying🇺🇿UZ: o'rganayotgan🇷🇺RU: изучающий how traditionaltraditional (adj)Following long-established customs.≈ Synonym: customary🇺🇿UZ: an'anaviy🇷🇺RU: традиционный non is mademake (verb)To produce or create something.≈ Synonym: produced🇺🇿UZ: tayyorlanadi🇷🇺RU: делается. "First," the mastermaster (noun)A person highly skilled in a craft.≈ Synonym: expert🇺🇿UZ: usta🇷🇺RU: мастер baker explainsexplain (verb)To make something clear by describing it.≈ Synonym: clarifies🇺🇿UZ: tushuntiradi🇷🇺RU: объясняет, "the doughdough (noun)A thick mixture of flour and water used for baking.≈ Synonym: flour mixture🇺🇿UZ: xamir🇷🇺RU: тесто is mixedmix (verb)To combine ingredients together.≈ Synonym: combined🇺🇿UZ: aralashtiriladi🇷🇺RU: замешивается by handhand (noun)The part of the body at the end of the arm.≈ Synonym: palm🇺🇿UZ: qo'l🇷🇺RU: рука, not by machinemachine (noun)A device with moving parts that does a task.≈ Synonym: device🇺🇿UZ: mashina (uskuna)🇷🇺RU: машина (устройство)."
"Why is it mixed by hand?" Farrukh asks. "Because the texturetexture (noun)The feel or consistency of a substance.≈ Synonym: consistency🇺🇿UZ: tuzilishi🇷🇺RU: текстура is controlledcontrol (verb)To have power over how something happens.≈ Synonym: regulated🇺🇿UZ: boshqariladi🇷🇺RU: контролируется more carefullycarefully (adverb)With close attention.≈ Synonym: attentively🇺🇿UZ: ehtiyotkorlik bilan🇷🇺RU: тщательно that way," the baker explains. "Every batchbatch (noun)A quantity of something made at one time.≈ Synonym: lot🇺🇿UZ: partiya🇷🇺RU: партия is checkedcheck (verb)To examine something to verify it.≈ Synonym: examined🇺🇿UZ: tekshiriladi🇷🇺RU: проверяется before it's shapedshape (verb)To form something into a particular form.≈ Synonym: formed🇺🇿UZ: shakl beriladi🇷🇺RU: формируется."
"After the dough is shaped," the baker continuescontinue (verb)To keep talking or doing something.≈ Synonym: goes on🇺🇿UZ: davom etadi🇷🇺RU: продолжает, "it's left to restrest (verb)To remain still, e.g. dough before baking.≈ Synonym: sit undisturbed🇺🇿UZ: tinch qoldiriladi🇷🇺RU: отдыхать (о тесте) for almost an hourhour (noun)A period of sixty minutes.≈ Synonym: sixty minutes🇺🇿UZ: soat🇷🇺RU: час. This stepstep (noun)A stage in a process.≈ Synonym: stage🇺🇿UZ: bosqich🇷🇺RU: этап can't be rushedrush (verb)To do something too quickly.≈ Synonym: hurried🇺🇿UZ: shoshiltiriladi🇷🇺RU: торопить, or the bread won't riserise (verb)To increase in size or height, e.g. dough.≈ Synonym: expand🇺🇿UZ: ko'tarilmoq🇷🇺RU: подниматься (о тесте) properlyproperly (adverb)In a correct or suitable way.≈ Synonym: correctly🇺🇿UZ: to'g'ri🇷🇺RU: должным образом."
"What happenshappen (verb)To take place; to occur.≈ Synonym: occurs🇺🇿UZ: sodir bo'ladi🇷🇺RU: происходит next?" Farrukh asks. "The patternpattern (noun)A repeated decorative design.≈ Synonym: design🇺🇿UZ: naqsh🇷🇺RU: узор is pressedpress (verb)To push firmly against something.≈ Synonym: pushed🇺🇿UZ: bosiladi🇷🇺RU: прижимается into the centrecentre (noun)The middle point of something.≈ Synonym: middle🇺🇿UZ: markaz🇷🇺RU: центр using a specialspecial (adj)Designed for a particular purpose.≈ Synonym: specific🇺🇿UZ: maxsus🇷🇺RU: специальный tooltool (noun)A device used to carry out a task.≈ Synonym: instrument🇺🇿UZ: asbob🇷🇺RU: инструмент called a chekich," the baker says. "This is done by every baker in their own uniqueunique (adj)Being the only one of its kind.≈ Synonym: distinctive🇺🇿UZ: o'ziga xos🇷🇺RU: уникальный stylestyle (noun)A particular way of doing something.≈ Synonym: manner🇺🇿UZ: uslub🇷🇺RU: стиль."
"Then it's bakedbake (verb)To cook food using dry heat in an oven.≈ Synonym: cooked in an oven🇺🇿UZ: pishiriladi🇷🇺RU: выпекается," the baker continues, "in a clayclay (noun)A type of heavy, sticky earth used to make pottery.≈ Synonym: earth material🇺🇿UZ: loy🇷🇺RU: глина ovenoven (noun)An enclosed space used for baking or heating food.≈ Synonym: furnace🇺🇿UZ: pech🇷🇺RU: печь called a tandir. The bread is stuckstick (verb)To attach firmly to a surface.≈ Synonym: attached🇺🇿UZ: yopishtiriladi🇷🇺RU: прилипает to the hothot (adj)Having a high temperature.≈ Synonym: warm🇺🇿UZ: issiq🇷🇺RU: горячий wallswall (noun)The upright sides of a room or structure.≈ Synonym: sides🇺🇿UZ: devorlar🇷🇺RU: стенки, and it's baked at a very highhigh (adj)Great in degree or amount.≈ Synonym: elevated🇺🇿UZ: yuqori🇷🇺RU: высокий temperaturetemperature (noun)The degree of heat of something.≈ Synonym: heat level🇺🇿UZ: harorat🇷🇺RU: температура."
"How longlong (adj)Taking a great amount of time.≈ Synonym: lengthy🇺🇿UZ: uzoq🇷🇺RU: долго is it baked for?" Farrukh asks. "Only a few minutesminute (noun)Periods of sixty seconds.≈ Synonym: sixty-second periods🇺🇿UZ: daqiqalar🇷🇺RU: минуты," the baker says. "It's watchedwatch (verb)To look at something carefully for a period.≈ Synonym: observed🇺🇿UZ: kuzatiladi🇷🇺RU: наблюдается closelyclosely (adverb)With close attention.≈ Synonym: attentively🇺🇿UZ: diqqat bilan🇷🇺RU: внимательно the whole time, because it can burnburn (verb)To be damaged or destroyed by fire or heat.≈ Synonym: scorch🇺🇿UZ: kuyib qolmoq🇷🇺RU: подгореть quicklyquickly (adverb)At a fast speed.≈ Synonym: fast🇺🇿UZ: tezda🇷🇺RU: быстро."
Finallyfinally (adverb)After a long time; at last.≈ Synonym: eventually🇺🇿UZ: nihoyat🇷🇺RU: наконец, the bread is removedremove (verb)To take something away.≈ Synonym: taken out🇺🇿UZ: olinadi🇷🇺RU: вынимается and left to coolcool (verb)To become less hot.≈ Synonym: become colder🇺🇿UZ: sovushi🇷🇺RU: остывать. "Every loafloaf (noun)A shaped mass of baked bread.≈ Synonym: bread piece🇺🇿UZ: non buxonkasi🇷🇺RU: буханка is made with carecare (noun)Attention and effort applied to something.≈ Synonym: attention🇺🇿UZ: e'tibor🇷🇺RU: забота," the baker says. "That's why non is respectedrespect (verb)To admire and honour something.≈ Synonym: honoured🇺🇿UZ: hurmat qilinadi🇷🇺RU: уважается — it isn't just baked, it's made with traditiontradition (noun)A custom or belief passed down through generations.≈ Synonym: custom🇺🇿UZ: an'ana🇷🇺RU: традиция."