ساعة الحائط
“ساعة الحائط” (сааʿат аль-хааит) — wall clock in Arabic. Noun, level A1. Saaʿa you have heard in the question about time; the wall clock specifies: the clock of the wall. Haa it is the wall of a room, and the familiar jidaar is the wall of the house outside. In a live sentence: “ساعة الحائط في الغرفة” — The wall clock is in the room. Written with the characters س, ا, ع, ة, ا, ل, ح, ا, ئ, ط.
In short
| Written in Arabic | ساعة الحائط |
| Read in Latin letters | сааʿат аль-хааит |
| Translation | wall clock |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Saaʿa you have heard in the question about time; the wall clock specifies: the clock of the wall. Haa it is the wall of a room, and the familiar jidaar is the wall of the house outside
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.
- ساعة الحائط في الغرفةсааʿат аль-хааит фи аль-гурфаThe wall clock is in the room
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 “wall clock” in Arabic?
«ساعة الحائط», read “сааʿат аль-хааит”. In a live sentence: “ساعة الحائط في الغرفة” — The wall clock is in the room. Noun, level A1; written with the characters س, ا, ع, ة, ا, ل, ح, ا, ئ, ط.
How is “ساعة الحائط” written in Latin letters?
сааʿат аль-хааит. 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?
Saaʿa you have heard in the question about time; the wall clock specifies: the clock of the wall. Haa it is the wall of a room, and the familiar jidaar is the wall of the house outside. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.