ديك
“ديك” (дик) — rooster in Arabic. Noun, level A1. Three letters and not one extra. The rooster in Arabic "cries out" like any animal — with the familiar verb. In a live sentence: “الديك يصرخ صباحا” — The rooster crows in the mornings. Written with the characters د, ي, ك. A word from the everyday Arabic course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Arabic | ديك |
| Read in Latin letters | дик |
| Translation | rooster |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Three letters and not one extra. The rooster in Arabic "cries out" like any animal — with the familiar verb
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.
- الديك يصرخ صباحاад-дик йасрих сабааханThe rooster crows in the mornings
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 “rooster” in Arabic?
«ديك», read “дик”. In a live sentence: “الديك يصرخ صباحا” — The rooster crows in the mornings. Noun, level A1; written with the characters د, ي, ك.
How is “ديك” written in Latin letters?
дик. 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?
Three letters and not one extra. The rooster in Arabic "cries out" like any animal — with the familiar verb. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.