Tools that serve Arabic in one of its parts rather than teach it: dictionaries and corpora, word-by-word Quran readers, writing, calligraphy, vowelling and typing tools, and aids for memorising and conjugation. Each was checked against its official site or app-store listing.
These are tools, not courses: learners, teachers and researchers use them alongside their study. Anything whose aim is to teach Arabic is under «Apps and websites». Prices are not given — only free or paid. The output of AI tools is automatic, and needs checking by the author of the text before it is relied on.
Listing criteria for this directory (in Arabic)
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Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
Traces each Arabic word from its earliest attestation in inscriptions and texts, with dated meanings, a searchable corpus, and entries that can be read aloud.
King Salman Global Academy for Arabic Language
A modern dictionary of contemporary standard Arabic, written for native and non-native readers alike, with examples, synonyms and antonyms, and English equivalents for headwords.
Sharjah Academy of the Arabic Language, with the Union of Arab Language Academies
Traces Arabic words by root from pre-Islamic inscriptions to modern usage, with dated quotations from original sources; a reference for advanced students and readers of classical texts.
Almaany.com
Large multilingual online dictionary: Arabic–Arabic plus Arabic paired with English, French, Spanish, Turkish and more, with example sentences and subject-specific terms.
Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
A historical dictionary tracing Arabic words and their meanings through dated texts from the earliest inscriptions, searchable by root or word. It also has a mobile app, «معجم الدوحة التاريخي».
Searchable online Lane's Arabic–English Lexicon alongside 46 other classical works, including Lisan al-Arab and Taj al-Arus.
Reverso
Shows words and phrases translated inside real bilingual sentences, with flashcards and quizzes built from your own searches.
مجمع اللغة العربيّة بالقاهرة
One search engine across fourteen dictionaries, including al-Mu‘jam al-Wasit and the Academy’s term dictionaries for literature, media, physics, music, history and geography; searchable by root too.
King Salman Global Academy for the Arabic Language (KSAA)
Over a billion words (1,182,515,663 words in 1,323,185 texts) written in Arabic from pre-Islamic times to the modern era, from many countries and from manuscripts, newspapers, books and journals; searched through a concordancer, frequency lists, collocations and n-grams.
King Salman Global Academy for the Arabic Language (KSAA)
About 322 million words in 4,268 texts written over the last hundred years — books, magazines, theses, websites and newspapers — across religious, cultural, social, political and scientific fields; a teacher can pull real modern examples of a word, its collocations and its frequency.
King Salman Global Academy for the Arabic Language, with inscriptions recorded by the Saudi Heritage Commission
725 Arabic inscriptions from the first to the third Hijri century, recorded by the Heritage Commission inside Saudi Arabia — Quranic verses, prayers, poetry and names carved on rock — about 14,450 words, searchable with a concordancer; for researchers in the history of the Arabic script and early Arabic.
King Salman Global Academy for the Arabic Language (KSAA)
300 books, about 9.7 million words, on teaching Arabic to non-native speakers, lexicography, and language planning and policy; useful to teachers and researchers who want the terms of their own field in context. A second, larger edition (Specialised Arabic Books, about 14.4 million words) sits beside it on the platform.
King Salman Global Academy for the Arabic Language (platform); corpus by Abdullah Alfaifi and Eric Atwell (Arabic Learner Corpus)
1,585 written and spoken texts produced by 942 learners of Arabic of 67 nationalities and 66 first languages in Saudi Arabia in 2012–2013; shows teachers and textbook writers the real errors and choices of learners, by first language.
King Salman Global Academy for the Arabic Language (KSAA)
The full text of the Quran — 114 surahs, 77,439 words — tagged Meccan or Medinan, with Falak's frequency, collocation and prefix-suffix tools.
Leipzig University (Wortschatz project)
A corpus-based dictionary: type an Arabic word to see example sentences, frequency and its common neighbours, drawn from corpora such as Arabic News 2020 (about 1.6 million sentences, 37.8 million tokens); other Arabic corpora can be chosen.
Maha Alrabiah, King Saud University (with Eric Atwell, University of Leeds)
About 50 million words of Classical Arabic from the pre-Islamic era to the fourth Hijri century, in religion, linguistics, literature, science, sociology and biography; built to study the meanings of Quranic words in contemporaneous texts.
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
A corpus planned at 100 million words of Modern Standard Arabic from across the Arab world — press, web articles, books and academic writing in eleven genres — with each text recorded by country, date and source.
مكتب تنسيق التعريب (الألكسو)، الرباط
The terms of the Unified Dictionaries series approved by the Arabization conferences, in about forty-five fields from linguistics and the sciences to law, economics and computing. Search by source language, target language and field.
مجمع الملك سلمان العالمي للغة العربية
A platform for general and specialised dictionaries, including term dictionaries the Academy produced with government bodies: data and AI, energy, media and more. It offers an API for developers.
الأمم المتّحدة
Terminology of the UN Secretariat, the regional commissions (ESCWA among them) and several agencies, side by side in the six languages, updated daily.
المنظّمة العالميّة للملكيّة الفكريّة (الويبو)
Scientific and technical terms drawn from patent documents, with a concept map showing how terms relate to one another.
منظّمة الأغذية والزراعة (الفاو)
About seventy thousand records on agriculture, food, water, fisheries and the names of bodies. Arabic coverage varies between collections.
منظّمة الأغذية والزراعة (الفاو)
A controlled thesaurus of agriculture, food and the environment with more than forty thousand concepts, browsable in an Arabic interface.
منظّمة الصحّة العالميّة، المكتب الإقليميّ لشرق المتوسّط
More than two hundred thousand English–Arabic medical entries in its fifth edition, searchable from any of its five languages into the others.
University of Leeds; maintained by the quran.com team
Word-by-word grammar of the whole Quran: transliteration, English gloss, part of speech and morphology for every word, plus a syntactic treebank.
Quran Foundation
A reading tool rather than a course: tap any word to hear it and see its meaning, which makes it a good daily companion for Quranic vocabulary.
Marwan (open-source project)
Reads the Quran word by word, with audio for each word, transliteration and a detailed morphological breakdown of every word.
Taha Zerrouki
Paste unvowelled Arabic and it adds the short-vowel marks, which helps learners read difficult text; the vowelling is automatic, so it should be checked rather than trusted.
Badri Badar Alhamdani
Teaches everyday Ruq'ah and Naskh handwriting letter by letter, with animated strokes and tracing feedback, then words, sentences and joins; you can also type your own text to practise.
Arabic Waw establishment for information technology
An iPad-first app for Arabic calligraphy: the history and rules of the scripts, tracing over master calligraphers' strokes, and a daily practice log.
Tybaa (أكاديمية الطباعة)
Arabic touch-typing lessons row by row, including the vowel marks, with a speed test and practice texts.
Mawdoo3 (موضوع)
An Arabic spelling and grammar checker that suggests one-click corrections, with diacritisation, writing numbers out in words for official documents, phrasing suggestions, text from images (OCR), and Arabic–English translation. Starts with a free trial.
النحوي (alnnahwi.com)
An automatic Arabic grammar and spelling checker built on an AI model trained for Arabic: it corrects mistakes and suggests better phrasing. Short texts are free, a paid plan covers more, and there is a Chrome extension.
Taha Zerrouki (Arabeyes project)
Open-source conjugator: type a vowelled verb and get past, present, imperative, passive, subjunctive, jussive and emphatic forms; interface is in Arabic.
Ankitects Pty Ltd and open-source contributors
A spaced-repetition flashcard program that shows each card just before you would forget it; learners build their own vocabulary decks with audio and images.
Furqan (eQibla.com)
Full conjugation tables for every person, trilateral forms I to X and quadrilateral verbs, active and passive, with a quiz mode that hides cells to test yourself; Ibn Hisham's Qatr al-Nada and Lane's Lexicon are built in.
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