بَرَد
“بَرَد” (барад) — hail in Arabic. Noun, level A2. The vowel tells the homophones apart: "barad" is hail, while "al-bard" is the cold. In a live sentence: “سقط بَرَد كبير على السيارات” — Big hail fell on the cars. Written with the characters ب, ر, د. A word from the everyday Arabic course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Arabic | بَرَد |
| Read in Latin letters | барад |
| Translation | hail |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
How to pronounce it
The vowel tells the homophones apart: "barad" is hail, while "al-bard" is the cold
Why it looks that way
The same letters as the cold of earlier lessons, but with the vowel a — this is hail. The gardener fears it more than the storm: hail strikes the harvest
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.
- سقط بَرَد كبير على السياراتсакат барад кябир аля ас-саййаараатBig hail fell on the cars
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 “hail” in Arabic?
«بَرَد», read “барад”. The vowel tells the homophones apart: "barad" is hail, while "al-bard" is the cold. In a live sentence: “سقط بَرَد كبير على السيارات” — Big hail fell on the cars. Noun, level A2; written with the characters ب, ر, د.
How is “بَرَد” written in Latin letters?
барад. 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?
The same letters as the cold of earlier lessons, but with the vowel a — this is hail. The gardener fears it more than the storm: hail strikes the harvest. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.