الدفع بالبطاقة
“الدفع بالبطاقة” (ад-дафʿ би-ль-баатака) — payment by card in Arabic. Noun, level A2. You have already paid with this phrase: ad-dafʿ bil-bitaaqa. Dafʿ is from the verb "to hand over", and Arabs took gladly to handing over by card. In a live sentence: “الدفع بالبطاقة أم نقد؟” — Payment by card or by cash? Written with the characters ا, ل, د, ف, ع, ب, ا, ل, ب, ط, ا, ق… A word from the everyday Arabic course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Arabic | الدفع بالبطاقة |
| Read in Latin letters | ад-дафʿ би-ль-баатака |
| Translation | payment by card |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
You have already paid with this phrase: ad-dafʿ bil-bitaaqa. Dafʿ is from the verb "to hand over", and Arabs took gladly to handing over by card
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.
- الدفع بالبطاقة أم نقد؟ад-дафʿ би-ль-баатака ам накд؟Payment by card or by cash?
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 “payment by card” in Arabic?
«الدفع بالبطاقة», read “ад-дафʿ би-ль-баатака”. In a live sentence: “الدفع بالبطاقة أم نقد؟” — Payment by card or by cash? Noun, level A2; written with the characters ا, ل, د, ف, ع, ب, ا, ل, ب, ط, ا, ق…
How is “الدفع بالبطاقة” written in Latin letters?
ад-дафʿ би-ль-баатака. 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?
You have already paid with this phrase: ad-dafʿ bil-bitaaqa. Dafʿ is from the verb "to hand over", and Arabs took gladly to handing over by card. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.