خزان ممتلئ
“خزان ممتلئ” (хаззаан мумталиʾ) — a full tank in Arabic. Noun, level B1. Khazzan is the tank, mumtaliʾ is "filled" — with a hamza at the end, a cut-off vowel. The rental rule is the same everywhere: taken full — return it full. In a live sentence: “أرجع السيارة بخزان ممتلئ” — I am returning the car with a full tank. Written with the characters خ, ز, ا, ن, م, م, ت, ل, ئ. A word from the everyday Arabic course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Arabic | خزان ممتلئ |
| Read in Latin letters | хаззаан мумталиʾ |
| Translation | a full tank |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Khazzan is the tank, mumtaliʾ is "filled" — with a hamza at the end, a cut-off vowel. The rental rule is the same everywhere: taken full — return it full
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.
- أرجع السيارة بخزان ممتلئарджаʿ ас-саййаара би-хаззаан мумталиʾI am returning the car with a full tank
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 full tank” in Arabic?
«خزان ممتلئ», read “хаззаан мумталиʾ”. In a live sentence: “أرجع السيارة بخزان ممتلئ” — I am returning the car with a full tank. Noun, level B1; written with the characters خ, ز, ا, ن, م, م, ت, ل, ئ.
How is “خزان ممتلئ” written in Latin letters?
хаззаан мумталиʾ. 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?
Khazzan is the tank, mumtaliʾ is "filled" — with a hamza at the end, a cut-off vowel. The rental rule is the same everywhere: taken full — return it full. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.