الشرطة
“الشرطة” (аш-шурта) — police in Arabic. Noun, level A1. The same shurṭa you have already phoned: ittasil bish-shurṭa. The article here is a sun one: ash-shurṭa, not al-shurṭa. In a live sentence: “الشرطة قرب الميدان” — The police is close to the square. Written with the characters ا, ل, ش, ر, ط, ة. A word from the everyday Arabic course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Arabic | الشرطة |
| Read in Latin letters | аш-шурта |
| Translation | police |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The same shurṭa you have already phoned: ittasil bish-shurṭa. The article here is a sun one: ash-shurṭa, not al-shurṭa
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.
- الشرطة قرب الميدانаш-шурта курб аль-майданThe police is close to the square
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 “police” in Arabic?
«الشرطة», read “аш-шурта”. In a live sentence: “الشرطة قرب الميدان” — The police is close to the square. Noun, level A1; written with the characters ا, ل, ش, ر, ط, ة.
How is “الشرطة” written in Latin letters?
аш-шурта. 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?
The same shurṭa you have already phoned: ittasil bish-shurṭa. The article here is a sun one: ash-shurṭa, not al-shurṭa. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.