لوحة الترخيص
“لوحة الترخيص” (лаухат ат-тархиис) — the license plate in Arabic. Noun, level B1. Lawha, "a board", was in the cutting board and the keyboard; here the board is "of permitting" — takhiis. The car plate in Arabic is a "permit", not a number: the word is about the right to drive. In a live sentence: “الشرطي يقرأ لوحة الترخيص” — The policeman reads the license plate. Written with the characters ل, و, ح, ة, ا, ل, ت, ر, خ, ي, ص.
In short
| Written in Arabic | لوحة الترخيص |
| Read in Latin letters | лаухат ат-тархиис |
| Translation | the license plate |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Lawha, "a board", was in the cutting board and the keyboard; here the board is "of permitting" — takhiis. The car plate in Arabic is a "permit", not a number: the word is about the right to drive
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.
- الشرطي يقرأ لوحة الترخيصаш-шуртый йаграʾ лаухат ат-тархиисThe policeman reads the license plate
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 “the license plate” in Arabic?
«لوحة الترخيص», read “лаухат ат-тархиис”. In a live sentence: “الشرطي يقرأ لوحة الترخيص” — The policeman reads the license plate. Noun, level B1; written with the characters ل, و, ح, ة, ا, ل, ت, ر, خ, ي, ص.
How is “لوحة الترخيص” written in Latin letters?
лаухат ат-тархиис. 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?
Lawha, "a board", was in the cutting board and the keyboard; here the board is "of permitting" — takhiis. The car plate in Arabic is a "permit", not a number: the word is about the right to drive. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.