اجتماع أولياء الأمور
“اجتماع أولياء الأمور” (иджтимааʿ авлияʾ аль-умуур) — parents' meeting in Arabic. Noun, level A2. The parents here are "the guardians of the affairs" — that is how the school paper says it. Ijtimaʿ is a meeting in general; you have met it as a work one. In a live sentence: “غدا اجتماع أولياء الأمور” — Tomorrow there is a parents' meeting. Written with the characters ا, ج, ت, م, ا, ع, أ, و, ل, ي, ا, ء…
In short
| Written in Arabic | اجتماع أولياء الأمور |
| Read in Latin letters | иджтимааʿ авлияʾ аль-умуур |
| Translation | parents' meeting |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
The parents here are "the guardians of the affairs" — that is how the school paper says it. Ijtimaʿ is a meeting in general; you have met it as a work one
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.
- غدا اجتماع أولياء الأمورгадан иджтимааʿ авлияʾ аль-умуурTomorrow there is a parents' meeting
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 “parents' meeting” in Arabic?
«اجتماع أولياء الأمور», read “иджтимааʿ авлияʾ аль-умуур”. In a live sentence: “غدا اجتماع أولياء الأمور” — Tomorrow there is a parents' meeting. Noun, level A2; written with the characters ا, ج, ت, م, ا, ع, أ, و, ل, ي, ا, ء…
How is “اجتماع أولياء الأمور” written in Latin letters?
иджтимааʿ авлияʾ аль-умуур. 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 parents here are "the guardians of the affairs" — that is how the school paper says it. Ijtimaʿ is a meeting in general; you have met it as a work one. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.