نوع مهدد بالانقراض
“نوع مهدد بالانقراض” (науʿ мухаддад би-ль-инкираад) — an endangered species in Arabic. Phrase, level B1. Literally "a kind threatened with vanishing": an endangered species. So the Red Book writes of animals. In a live sentence: “هذا الحيوان نوع مهدد بالانقراض” — This animal is an endangered species. Written with the characters ن, و, ع, م, ه, د, د, ب, ا, ل, ا, ن… A word from the everyday Arabic course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Arabic | نوع مهدد بالانقراض |
| Read in Latin letters | науʿ мухаддад би-ль-инкираад |
| Translation | an endangered species |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "a kind threatened with vanishing": an endangered species. So the Red Book writes of animals
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.
- هذا الحيوان نوع مهدد بالانقراضхаза аль-хайаваан науʿ мухаддад би-ль-инкираадThis animal is an endangered species
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 “an endangered species” in Arabic?
«نوع مهدد بالانقراض», read “науʿ мухаддад би-ль-инкираад”. In a live sentence: “هذا الحيوان نوع مهدد بالانقراض” — This animal is an endangered species. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters ن, و, ع, م, ه, د, د, ب, ا, ل, ا, ن…
How is “نوع مهدد بالانقراض” written in Latin letters?
науʿ мухаддад би-ль-инкираад. 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 "a kind threatened with vanishing": an endangered species. So the Red Book writes of animals. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.