Programmes and resources for teaching Arabic

Tools that serve Arabic

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.

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ALECSO Unified Terms Bank

مكتب تنسيق التعريب (الألكسو)، الرباط

Website

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.

  • Kind of Standard Arabic: Modern Standard Arabic
  • Explained in: Arabic, English, French, German
  • Runs on: Web browser
Reviewed: October 2026
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Siwar

مجمع الملك سلمان العالمي للغة العربية

Website

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.

  • Kind of Standard Arabic: Modern Standard Arabic
  • Explained in: Arabic, with English equivalents
  • Runs on: Web browser
Reviewed: October 2026
Free Visit site

UNTERM – United Nations Terminology Database

الأمم المتّحدة

Website

Terminology of the UN Secretariat, the regional commissions (ESCWA among them) and several agencies, side by side in the six languages, updated daily.

  • Kind of Standard Arabic: Modern Standard Arabic
  • Explained in: The six official UN languages, Arabic among them
  • Runs on: Web browser
Reviewed: October 2026
Free Visit site

WIPO Pearl

المنظّمة العالميّة للملكيّة الفكريّة (الويبو)

Website

Scientific and technical terms drawn from patent documents, with a concept map showing how terms relate to one another.

  • Kind of Standard Arabic: Modern Standard Arabic
  • Explained in: Ten languages, Arabic among them
  • Runs on: Web browser
Reviewed: October 2026
Free Visit site

FAO Term Portal (FAOTERM)

منظّمة الأغذية والزراعة (الفاو)

Website

About seventy thousand records on agriculture, food, water, fisheries and the names of bodies. Arabic coverage varies between collections.

  • Kind of Standard Arabic: Modern Standard Arabic
  • Explained in: The six FAO languages, Arabic among them
  • Runs on: Web browser
Reviewed: October 2026
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AGROVOC Multilingual Thesaurus

منظّمة الأغذية والزراعة (الفاو)

Website

A controlled thesaurus of agriculture, food and the environment with more than forty thousand concepts, browsable in an Arabic interface.

  • Kind of Standard Arabic: Modern Standard Arabic
  • Explained in: Up to 42 languages, Arabic among them
  • Runs on: Web browser
Reviewed: October 2026
Free Visit site

Unified Medical Dictionary (UMD)

منظّمة الصحّة العالميّة، المكتب الإقليميّ لشرق المتوسّط

Website

More than two hundred thousand English–Arabic medical entries in its fifth edition, searchable from any of its five languages into the others.

  • Kind of Standard Arabic: Modern Standard Arabic
  • Explained in: English and Arabic, plus French, German and Spanish
  • Runs on: Web browser
Reviewed: October 2026
Free Visit site

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