طلب رسمي
“طلب رسمي” (таляб расмий) — an official request in Arabic. Noun, level B1. The familiar talab, an application, with the label "official". The word has a firm tone: an answer is owed in time, and the term is written in the law. In a live sentence: “طلب رسمي إلى البلدية” — An official request to the city hall. Written with the characters ط, ل, ب, ر, س, م, ي. A word from the everyday Arabic course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Arabic | طلب رسمي |
| Read in Latin letters | таляб расмий |
| Translation | an official request |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
The familiar talab, an application, with the label "official". The word has a firm tone: an answer is owed in time, and the term is written in the law
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 رسمي إلى البلديةталяб расмий иля аль-балидийяAn official request to the city hall
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 “an official request” in Arabic?
«طلب رسمي», read “таляб расмий”. In a live sentence: “طلب رسمي إلى البلدية” — An official request to the city hall. Noun, level B1; written with the characters ط, ل, ب, ر, س, م, ي.
How is “طلب رسمي” written in Latin letters?
таляб расмий. 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 familiar talab, an application, with the label "official". The word has a firm tone: an answer is owed in time, and the term is written in the law. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.