إشاعة
“إشاعة” (ишааиʿа) — a rumor in Arabic. Noun, level B1. Two throat sounds in one word: "i-shaa-i-ʿa". In a live sentence: “إشاعة عن الشركة” — A rumor about the company. Written with the characters إ, ش, ا, ع, ة. A word from the everyday Arabic course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Arabic | إشاعة |
| Read in Latin letters | ишааиʿа |
| Translation | a rumor |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
How to pronounce it
Two throat sounds in one word: "i-shaa-i-ʿa"
Why it looks that way
From the verb "to spread like water": a rumor is what spilled by itself. A word with a minus: an ishaaʿa is never a compliment, and the news usually warns against it
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.
- إشاعة عن الشركةишааиʿа ʿан аш-шарикаA rumor about the company
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 rumor” in Arabic?
«إشاعة», read “ишааиʿа”. Two throat sounds in one word: "i-shaa-i-ʿa". In a live sentence: “إشاعة عن الشركة” — A rumor about the company. Noun, level B1; written with the characters إ, ش, ا, ع, ة.
How is “إشاعة” written in Latin letters?
ишааиʿа. 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?
From the verb "to spread like water": a rumor is what spilled by itself. A word with a minus: an ishaaʿa is never a compliment, and the news usually warns against it. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.