إلغاء الحجز
“إلغاء الحجز” (ильгаа аль-хаджз) — a booking cancellation in Arabic. Noun, level B1. Literally "the annulment of the booking": the same ilghaa that cancels a flight and a contract. On websites read the condition: ilghaa al-hajz majjaaniy — the cancellation is free. In a live sentence: “إلغاء الحجز مجاني قبل أسبوع” — Cancelling the booking is free a week ahead. Written with the characters إ, ل, غ, ا, ء, ا, ل, ح, ج, ز. A word from the everyday Arabic course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Arabic | إلغاء الحجز |
| Read in Latin letters | ильгаа аль-хаджз |
| Translation | a booking cancellation |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "the annulment of the booking": the same ilghaa that cancels a flight and a contract. On websites read the condition: ilghaa al-hajz majjaaniy — the cancellation is free
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.
- إلغاء الحجز مجاني قبل أسبوعильгаа аль-хаджз маджяаний кябля усбууʿCancelling the booking is free a week ahead
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 “a booking cancellation” in Arabic?
«إلغاء الحجز», read “ильгаа аль-хаджз”. In a live sentence: “إلغاء الحجز مجاني قبل أسبوع” — Cancelling the booking is free a week ahead. Noun, level B1; written with the characters إ, ل, غ, ا, ء, ا, ل, ح, ج, ز.
How is “إلغاء الحجز” written in Latin letters?
ильгаа аль-хаджз. 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 annulment of the booking": the same ilghaa that cancels a flight and a contract. On websites read the condition: ilghaa al-hajz majjaaniy — the cancellation is free. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.