قرضا
“قرضا” (кардан) — loan in Arabic. Noun, level B1. Qard is "what was cut off from one’s own": the root of the verb "to cut". For Arabic a loan is a piece, and to repay it is "to give back the cut-off part". In a live sentence: “طلب قرضا من المصرف” — He asked for a loan at the bank. Written with the characters ق, ر, ض, ا. A word from the everyday Arabic course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Arabic | قرضا |
| Read in Latin letters | кардан |
| Translation | loan |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Qard is "what was cut off from one’s own": the root of the verb "to cut". For Arabic a loan is a piece, and to repay it is "to give back the cut-off part"
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.
- طلب قرضا من المصرفталаба кардан мин аль-масрифHe asked for a loan at the bank
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 “loan” in Arabic?
«قرضا», read “кардан”. In a live sentence: “طلب قرضا من المصرف” — He asked for a loan at the bank. Noun, level B1; written with the characters ق, ر, ض, ا.
How is “قرضا” written in Latin letters?
кардан. 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?
Qard is "what was cut off from one’s own": the root of the verb "to cut". For Arabic a loan is a piece, and to repay it is "to give back the cut-off part". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.