يثبت التطبيق
“يثبت التطبيق” (йюсаббит ат-татбик) — to install the app in Arabic. Phrase, level B1. Yusabbit comes from sabata, "to make firm": the app is not placed but "rooted" into the phone. Tatbiq, "the app", you know from banking: now it gets installed. In a live sentence: “يثبت التطبيق من الإنترنت” — He installs the app from the internet. Written with the characters ي, ث, ب, ت, ا, ل, ت, ط, ب, ي, ق. A word from the everyday Arabic course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Arabic | يثبت التطبيق |
| Read in Latin letters | йюсаббит ат-татбик |
| Translation | to install the app |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Yusabbit comes from sabata, "to make firm": the app is not placed but "rooted" into the phone. Tatbiq, "the app", you know from banking: now it gets installed
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.
- يثبت التطبيق من الإنترنتйюсаббит ат-татбик мин аль-интарнитHe installs the app from the internet
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 “to install the app” in Arabic?
«يثبت التطبيق», read “йюсаббит ат-татбик”. In a live sentence: “يثبت التطبيق من الإنترنت” — He installs the app from the internet. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters ي, ث, ب, ت, ا, ل, ت, ط, ب, ي, ق.
How is “يثبت التطبيق” written in Latin letters?
йюсаббит ат-татбик. 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?
Yusabbit comes from sabata, "to make firm": the app is not placed but "rooted" into the phone. Tatbiq, "the app", you know from banking: now it gets installed. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.