بجانب إشارة المرور
“بجانب إشارة المرور” (биджяниб ишарат аль-муруур) — next to the traffic light in Arabic. Phrase, level A2. Bijaanib is "at the side": next to is literally "from the side of". The traffic light is ishaara, "a signal" — the same word as a pointing gesture: for Arabic the traffic light is the "signal of movement". In a live sentence: “الحافلة تنتظر بجانب إشارة المرور” — The bus is waiting next to the traffic light. A word from the everyday Arabic course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Arabic | بجانب إشارة المرور |
| Read in Latin letters | биджяниб ишарат аль-муруур |
| Translation | next to the traffic light |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Bijaanib is "at the side": next to is literally "from the side of". The traffic light is ishaara, "a signal" — the same word as a pointing gesture: for Arabic the traffic light is the "signal of movement"
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.
- الحافلة تنتظر بجانب إشارة المرورаль-хаафила тантаазир биджяниб ишарат аль-муруурThe bus is waiting next to the traffic light
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 “next to the traffic light” in Arabic?
«بجانب إشارة المرور», read “биджяниб ишарат аль-муруур”. In a live sentence: “الحافلة تنتظر بجانب إشارة المرور” — The bus is waiting next to the traffic light. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters ب, ج, ا, ن, ب, إ, ش, ا, ر, ة, ا, ل…
How is “بجانب إشارة المرور” written in Latin letters?
биджяниб ишарат аль-муруур. 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?
Bijaanib is "at the side": next to is literally "from the side of". The traffic light is ishaara, "a signal" — the same word as a pointing gesture: for Arabic the traffic light is the "signal of movement". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.