بداية يوم العمل
“بداية يوم العمل” (бидайя йаум аль-ʿамаль) — start of the working day in Arabic. Noun, level A1. Literally "the beginning of the day of work": three familiar words in a row. The word for a work shift is taken by another sense, so they say it through yawm. In a live sentence: “يبدأ يوم العمل مبكرا” — The working day starts early. Written with the characters ب, د, ا, ي, ة, ي, و, م, ا, ل, ع, م…
In short
| Written in Arabic | بداية يوم العمل |
| Read in Latin letters | бидайя йаум аль-ʿамаль |
| Translation | start of the working day |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "the beginning of the day of work": three familiar words in a row. The word for a work shift is taken by another sense, so they say it through yawm
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.
- يبدأ يوم العمل مبكراйабдаʾ йаум аль-ʿамаль мубаккиранThe working day starts early
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 “start of the working day” in Arabic?
«بداية يوم العمل», read “бидайя йаум аль-ʿамаль”. In a live sentence: “يبدأ يوم العمل مبكرا” — The working day starts early. Noun, level A1; written with the characters ب, د, ا, ي, ة, ي, و, م, ا, ل, ع, م…
How is “بداية يوم العمل” written in Latin letters?
бидайя йаум аль-ʿамаль. 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 "the beginning of the day of work": three familiar words in a row. The word for a work shift is taken by another sense, so they say it through yawm. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.