قطعة غيار
“قطعة غيار” (кытаʿат гияр) — a spare part in Arabic. Noun, level B1. Literally "a spare piece": the part is ghiyaar, "for changing", from ghayyara, "to change". Qitʿa, "a piece", you know: in Arabic a detail is a cut-off piece of the whole. In a live sentence: “قطعة غيار للسيارة” — A spare part for the car. Written with the characters ق, ط, ع, ة, غ, ي, ا, ر. A word from the everyday Arabic course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Arabic | قطعة غيار |
| Read in Latin letters | кытаʿат гияр |
| Translation | a spare part |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "a spare piece": the part is ghiyaar, "for changing", from ghayyara, "to change". Qitʿa, "a piece", you know: in Arabic a detail is a cut-off piece of the whole
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.
- قطعة غيار للسيارةкытаʿат гияр ли-с-саййаараA spare part for the car
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 “a spare part” in Arabic?
«قطعة غيار», read “кытаʿат гияр”. In a live sentence: “قطعة غيار للسيارة” — A spare part for the car. Noun, level B1; written with the characters ق, ط, ع, ة, غ, ي, ا, ر.
How is “قطعة غيار” written in Latin letters?
кытаʿат гияр. 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 spare piece": the part is ghiyaar, "for changing", from ghayyara, "to change". Qitʿa, "a piece", you know: in Arabic a detail is a cut-off piece of the whole. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.