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Free abjad calculator: type Arabic and get the hisab al-jummal total letter by letter, in Mashriqi and Maghribi values, with every counting rule shown.

A free Arabic alphabet quiz: name each letter, match it to its sound, spot its initial, medial and final forms, and tell apart look-alike letters by their dots.

Free Arabic calligraphy generator: type Arabic, see it in 12 fonts (Naskh, Kufi, Ruqah, Nastaliq and more), pick colours and download a transparent PNG.

Free Arabic flashcards with spaced repetition: the alphabet, numbers, days, colors, family and months in your browser, and every deck as a CSV for Anki.

Type your Arabic and see it in 16 free Arabic fonts at once. Each is OFL-licensed for commercial use, carries every vowel mark and downloads from Google Fonts.

60 Arabic last names in Arabic script with their meanings, from Haddad (blacksmith) to al-Qahtani, plus what Al, Bin and Abu mean and where each name is found.

A free 30-question Arabic language test that gives a self-check reading level from Novice up to Advanced, what to study next, and official exams and prices.

Generate a real Arabic boy or girl name with its meaning, or a full classical name with ibn, bint, Abu and Umm. Each name is linked to its source.

Ten famous Arabic poems from Imru' al-Qays to al-Mutanabbi, fully vowelled, with transliteration, word-by-word glosses, our translations and the 16 meters.

Arabic pronunciation for English speakers: where each hard letter is made, word pairs that test it, native audio, and how dialects change the qaf and jim.

Arabic vs Hebrew for English speakers: which one is faster to learn, the 22 letters they share, and 30 shared words, each checked against Wiktionary.

Persian (Farsi) is not Arabic: different language families, one shared script, 8,000 loanwords. See the letters, the grammar gap, and which is faster to learn.

Arabic vs Urdu: Urdu's extra letters, 15 Arabic words that changed meaning in Urdu, and how far reading the Quran plus speaking Urdu gets you toward Arabic.

Bahraini Arabic in script and transliteration: the Sunni and Baharna dialects, how they differ from Kuwaiti and Emirati, and which courses really teach it.

50 basic Arabic sentences grouped by the pattern each teaches, fully vowelled, glossed word by word, with the Egyptian and Levantine way to say every one.

The best apps to learn Arabic, compared on what each one teaches (script, MSA, dialect or Quran), its free tier and store price, with three apps we reject.

Fruits and vegetables in Arabic: 55 names in Modern Standard, Egyptian, Levantine and Gulf Arabic, with singular forms and the words that change by country.

Good morning in Arabic is sabah al-khayr. Here are 11 replies, from sabah an-nur to sabah el-full, plus good evening and good night in four dialects.

Happy birthday in Arabic is eid milad saeed, but people say kul sana wenta tayeb. Get both, plus wishes for Eid, weddings and loss, each with its reply.

Today's Hijri date in English and Arabic, a two-way Hijri and Gregorian converter, and the start of every month, Ramadan and Eid from 1447 to 1449 AH.

How to read Arabic in six steps, from the first letter to text with no vowel marks, with a time estimate for each step and a free drill you mark as you go.

I love you in Arabic to a man, a woman or a group, in MSA and five dialects, plus 25 terms of endearment with their literal meanings and who to say them to.

Islamic calendar 2027 (1448-1449 AH) by Umm al-Qura: Ramadan from 8 February, Eid al-Fitr 9 March, Eid al-Adha 16 May; sighting can shift a day. Free PDFs.

The 100 most common Arabic words, ranked from 166 million words of subtitles, with script, transliteration, meaning, and what Cairo and Beirut say instead.

Eleven Arabic courses online compared on price per live hour, dialect, textbook and level, with prices checked on 5 October 2026, a top pick and two we reject.

Type any Arabic word and see how al- joins it. All 14 sun letters and 14 moon letters, a vowelled example word for each, and the tongue rule behind them.

Type your name and see it in Arabic script. 212 common English names are checked against Arabic Wikipedia; any other name gets a clearly marked estimate.

Arabic grammar rules on one map: three word classes, two sentence types, each rule with an example, and which rules still matter in spoken dialects.

40 Arabic proverbs and sayings in script and transliteration, glossed word by word, with the English equivalent, when to say each, and the book it comes from.

Free Arabic short stories graded by level: every free collection we could verify, with MSA or dialect, vowel marks, audio and English translation marked.

Arabic slang words with the dialects that really use them: 42 words in script and transliteration, from yalla and wallah to Moroccan wakha, flagged by register.

Free Arabic to English transliteration tool: turn Arabic script into plain English letters, Arabizi or ALA-LC, plus a chart of four systems for every letter.

Free Arabic alphabet worksheets: a printable PDF for each of the 28 letters, with all four letter forms, tracing rows and three practice words on every sheet.

Clothes in Arabic in Modern Standard, Egyptian, Levantine and Gulf, plus the thobe, kandura, abaya and 15 more traditional garments and where each is worn.

Omani Arabic explained: Muscat vs interior speech, the Persian, Hindi and Swahili loanwords, essential phrases in script, and the few courses that teach Omani.

Qatari Arabic in script and transliteration: how it differs from Emirati, Kuwaiti and MSA, the phrases Doha actually uses, and which courses really teach it.

50 animals in Arabic, in script and transliteration, each one given with its plural. Plus the animals in the Quran's chapter names and in everyday proverbs.

Twelve Arabic movies with English subtitles, each with the dialect you will actually hear, the runtime, and where to stream it from outside the Arab world.

Every common Arabic preposition in one table, with script, transliteration, the genitive ending it forces on the next noun, and how it joins a pronoun suffix.

Twelve Arabic songs sorted by the dialect they are sung in, each with one line of the chorus in Arabic script, transliteration and plain English.

Arabic TV shows and series by dialect, level and platform: which of 12 hit series are Levantine, Egyptian, Gulf or Tunisian, and where to watch each one.

Arabic YouTube channels and podcasts, each one labelled with the dialect the host actually speaks, whether it is taught in Arabic or English, and the level.

Emirati Arabic in script and transliteration: 14 words where the UAE dialect breaks from general Gulf Arabic, 14 essential phrases, and where to learn it.

Food in Arabic in four varieties: 40 words in Modern Standard, Egyptian, Levantine and Gulf Arabic, plus 14 named dishes and the country each belongs to.

Islamic phrases in Arabic with full vowel marks, literal meanings, the moment each one is said, and the reply you are expected to give back. 29 phrases.

Kuwaiti Arabic in script and transliteration: hello, sorry and I love you, the qaf-to-g and kaf-to-ch shifts, and how to start learning the dialect.

Libyan Arabic, east against west: Benghazi and Tripoli speech in one table, the n- prefix that makes it Maghrebi, and the few books that actually exist.

The 100 most common Quran words in one table: Arabic with harakat, transliteration, meaning, root, and an exact occurrence count from corpus.quran.com.

The Saudi dialect is really three. See Najdi, Hejazi and Modern Standard Arabic side by side in script and transliteration, with the phrases you actually need.

Sudanese Arabic for learners: the words that do not transfer from Egyptian, the Nubian and Beja vocabulary nobody lists, and where to actually study it.

Telling time in Arabic, hour by hour: all twelve hours in script and transliteration, plus the wa and illa minute forms as Egypt and the Levant say them.

Weather in Arabic in one chart: every word in Modern Standard, Egyptian, Levantine and Gulf Arabic, plus the four seasons and the winds each region names.

An Arabic alphabet chart with all 28 letters in every position: isolated, initial, medial and final, with transliteration, sounds and sun letters marked.

All the Arabic colors in one table: masculine, feminine and the plural form other lists leave out, plus the nisba colors and what Egyptians really say.

The Arabic days of the week in Modern Standard, Levantine, Egyptian, Gulf and Moroccan, with transliteration, plus which day the week actually starts on.

Every Arabic diacritic on one letter: fatha, kasra, damma, sukun, shadda and the three tanwin, plus which real texts print harakat and which never do.

Family in Arabic, mapped relative by relative: the core kinship words, all eight cousin terms, the in-law set, and every one with its possessive ending.

The Arabic months in one place: all 12 Hijri months, plus the Gregorian months as named in the Levant and in Egypt and the Gulf, in script and transliteration.

Arabic numbers 1 to 100 in one chart: Eastern and Western numerals, Arabic spelling, transliteration, and the counting rules most number lists leave out.

All 12 Arabic pronouns in one chart: independent, possessive and object forms in Modern Standard, Egyptian and Levantine, with script and transliteration.

Arabic verb conjugation tables for kataba in all 13 persons: past, present, subjunctive, jussive and imperative, with Egyptian and Levantine forms beside them.

How to learn Arabic in six stages: time per stage, the book, tutor or app we pick at each one, a test to pass before moving on, and the courses we skip.

Hello, thank you and 22 more Arabic greetings, each with the reply it expects, in MSA, Levantine, Egyptian and Gulf Arabic. Plus 39 everyday phrases in script.

How long does it take to learn Arabic? A real learner's milestone timeline, from first letters to fluent reading, measured against the FSI 2,200-hour estimate.

Is Arabic hard to learn? Yes in places, no in others. Here is a skill-by-skill difficulty rating from an adult who learned it, with the real timings.

Learn Arabic free without the bait. We name what stays free forever, where each free tier stops, what is only a trial, and the popular ones we tell you to skip.

We scored the eight main Arabic dialects on speakers, reach, media, resources and difficulty, then picked one. See the table and what would change our answer.

Most Arabic learners hit a wall the first time they try to read a business sign or a letterhead. Arabic business names are formulaic …

How Jordanian Arabic changes across Amman, the north, the south, Aqaba and the Bedouin desert: the qaf, "I want" and "why", compared region by region.

Over the past few years, learning Arabic has become a passion of mine. At the …

Levantine Arabic (Shami شامي ) is the variety of Arabic spoken by people in the …

Abu Hurairah reported Allah’s Messenger [Muhammad] (may peace be upon him) as saying: “There are …

There are a total of 364 vocabulary words found in Al Kitaab Part One. The …

A New Arabic Grammar of the Written Language by Nahmad and Haywood is one of …

Learning to understand the Quran is a very challenging but rewarding goal is your life.  …

The vocabulary for A New Arabic Grammar contains 2600 words.  The words are selected based …

Arabic is the fifth most popular language in the world with over 300 million speakers. …