قسيمة الدفع
“قسيمة الدفع” (куссаймат ад-дафʿ) — receipt (payment slip) in Arabic. Noun, level A2. Qisaima is "the cut-off part": from the verb "to cut". The receipt for an Arab is a tear-off stub — and the word honestly remembers the scissors. In a live sentence: “قسيمة الدفع في المحفظة” — The payment receipt is in the wallet. Written with the characters ق, س, ي, م, ة, ا, ل, د, ف, ع. A word from the everyday Arabic course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Arabic | قسيمة الدفع |
| Read in Latin letters | куссаймат ад-дафʿ |
| Translation | receipt (payment slip) |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Qisaima is "the cut-off part": from the verb "to cut". The receipt for an Arab is a tear-off stub — and the word honestly remembers the scissors
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.
- قسيمة الدفع في المحفظةкуссаймат ад-дафʿ фи аль-михфазаThe payment receipt is in the wallet
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 “receipt (payment slip)” in Arabic?
«قسيمة الدفع», read “куссаймат ад-дафʿ”. In a live sentence: “قسيمة الدفع في المحفظة” — The payment receipt is in the wallet. Noun, level A2; written with the characters ق, س, ي, م, ة, ا, ل, د, ف, ع.
How is “قسيمة الدفع” written in Latin letters?
куссаймат ад-дафʿ. 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?
Qisaima is "the cut-off part": from the verb "to cut". The receipt for an Arab is a tear-off stub — and the word honestly remembers the scissors. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.