أقلع عن التدخين
“أقلع عن التدخين” (аглаʿту ʿан ат-тадхийн) — to quit smoking in Arabic. Phrase, level B1. Literally "unhooked from the smoke": aqlaʿa is "to unbind". Smoking, tadkhiin, is kin to the verb "to smoke". In a live sentence: “أقلع عن التدخين منذ سنة” — I quit smoking a year ago. Written with the characters أ, ق, ل, ع, ع, ن, ا, ل, ت, د, خ, ي… A word from the everyday Arabic course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Arabic | أقلع عن التدخين |
| Read in Latin letters | аглаʿту ʿан ат-тадхийн |
| Translation | to quit smoking |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "unhooked from the smoke": aqlaʿa is "to unbind". Smoking, tadkhiin, is kin to the verb "to smoke"
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.
- أقلع عن التدخين منذ سنةаглаʿту ʿан ат-тадхийн мунзу санаI quit smoking a year ago
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 “to quit smoking” in Arabic?
«أقلع عن التدخين», read “аглаʿту ʿан ат-тадхийн”. In a live sentence: “أقلع عن التدخين منذ سنة” — I quit smoking a year ago. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters أ, ق, ل, ع, ع, ن, ا, ل, ت, د, خ, ي…
How is “أقلع عن التدخين” written in Latin letters?
аглаʿту ʿан ат-тадхийн. 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?
Literally "unhooked from the smoke": aqlaʿa is "to unbind". Smoking, tadkhiin, is kin to the verb "to smoke". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.