مستوى الصوت
“مستوى الصوت” (мустава ас-саут) — volume in Arabic. Noun, level A2. Literally "the level of the sound": Arabic keeps no separate word for "volume". Khafid al-mustawa — lower the level — works in any cafe. In a live sentence: “خفض مستوى الصوت, من فضلك” — Turn the volume down, please. Written with the characters م, س, ت, و, ى, ا, ل, ص, و, ت. A word from the everyday Arabic course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Arabic | مستوى الصوت |
| Read in Latin letters | мустава ас-саут |
| Translation | volume |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "the level of the sound": Arabic keeps no separate word for "volume". Khafid al-mustawa — lower the level — works in any cafe
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.
- خفض مستوى الصوت, من فضلكхафид мустава ас-саут, мин фадликTurn the volume down, please
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 “volume” in Arabic?
«مستوى الصوت», read “мустава ас-саут”. In a live sentence: “خفض مستوى الصوت, من فضلك” — Turn the volume down, please. Noun, level A2; written with the characters م, س, ت, و, ى, ا, ل, ص, و, ت.
How is “مستوى الصوت” written in Latin letters?
мустава ас-саут. 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 level of the sound": Arabic keeps no separate word for "volume". Khafid al-mustawa — lower the level — works in any cafe. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.