Aratools Arabic - English dictionary is an electronic dictionary available on the web,
as an iPhone application and as a Windows and Mac OS X application (beta versions to
be released soon).
Features
Prefix and suffix morphology.
Shows POS information
Over 80000 stems in dictionary.
Especially suited for translating arabic news sources or for Arabic language learners.
Crossplatform.
Enter a word:
Enable autocomplete
English-Arabic Dictionary is experimental and not complete.
If you are experiencing problems:
Please note that this application depends on functionality that may not be present in older browsers.
If you experience problems try to use a recent version of Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari.
We work hard to ensure that Arabic script is displayed correctly across all web browsers and operating systems,
but if you see incorrectly displayed text please tell us at support@aratools.com.
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If you are experiencing problems:
Please note that this application depends on functionality that may not be present in older browsers.
If you experience problems try to use a recent version of Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari.
We work hard to ensure that Arabic script is displayed correctly across all web browsers and operating systems,
but if you see incorrectly displayed text please tell us at support@aratools.com.
This is a beta version of the Arabic-English Dictionary for OSX. New releases will be available on this page.
Arabic-English dictionary 0.92 BETA download
(Intel Mac and Mac OS X 10.5 or newer required)
This version does not expire :)
Aratools Arabic-English dictionary is available for the iPhone/iPod Touch through the Apple AppStore.
The dictionary is straigthforward to use, type an arabic word and a list of possible english words appear.
Select one of the english words to see further information about this arabic word such as the word class,
root and some morphological information.
How do I enter Arabic words ?
Before using the Arabic-English dictionary you must first setup the arabic keyboard on your iPod Touch or
iPhone. Please exit the application and follow these simple steps.
How to enable the Arabic keyboard
Select the settings application from the home page.
Then select the General option from the list.
Select International.
Select Keyboards.
Check if the keyboard switch labelled Arabic is in the off position.
Switch it to the On position if it is.
The Arabic keyboard can now be activated by pressing the globe key
in the bottom row of the iPhone keyboard.
How do I access some characters like the hamza ?
The hamza can be entered by holding down the alif key. Holding down the alif, waw and ya keys
also lets you enter a hamza seated on the respective letters. Holding the the key depicting a fatha
lets you enter the other diacritics used in Arabic script.
Do I need to connect to the internet to use the iPhone Arabic-English dictionary ?
No, the dictionary data is contained in the application itself on the iPhone/iPod touch.
The dictionary never connects to the internet.
Contact us
If you have any problems, questions or other enquiries, feel free to contact us at
support@aratools.com.
Programmers, linguists or users that are interested should feel free to contact the original
author at andrely@ifi.uio.no