Awesome Arabic

A curated list of awesome projects, libraries, tools, fonts, and dev/design resources that are trying to enhance/support the Arabic language computational needs and improve its presence on the web.

Programming Languages

C/C++

• libitl2 - A library for Islamic calendar and prayer times.
• [Qt]: ArabicNumberToWord, Convert numbers and amounts from numeric to Arabic words.

Go (Golang)

• goarabic - a Go Lang package for dealing with Arabic text.
• ara - Command line tool that displays Arabic text in terminal.

Java

• NumberToArabicWords - Arabic numbers to words.
• RemoveTashkeel.java - Removes Arabic diacritics (tashkeel تشكيل) from any file almost instantly.
• Prayer Times - Desktop application shows you the times of Muslim prayer and set an alarm (Athan) to remind you.
• Azkar - Desktop Application shows notification for Azkar that pops-up every specific time, Calculating Muslim prayer times (for any location), and Morning and Nights Azkar with reminder.

Javascript

• I18n - A Repository to provide arabic translation for technical terms.
• arabicString - A Javascript library that extends the native String object with methods to help when dealing with Arabic strings for node and the browser.
• Arli - JavaScript tools for an Arabic development.
• bidiweb - Determine the base direction of paragraphs and adjust them accordingly.
• Hijri Converter - Convert between Hijri (Um Alqura) and Gregorian NPM.
• Hijri.js - A tool for Hijri calender (based on Umm al-Qura calculations) in Javascript.
• jsastem - JavaScript Arabic Stemmer.
• moment-hijri - A Hijri calendar (based on Umm al-Qura calculations) plugin for moment.js.
• n2words - Convert numerical numbers to written numbers, in arabic (and other languages).
• aln9 - A lightweight markup language designed for Arabic text.
• circular-arabic - Write Arabic words in a circle or arc using the Canvas element
• Oktob.js - Force typing in Arabic letters (ex: replaces "a" with "ض" for AZERTY keyboard scheme)
• TafgeetJS - An NPM module to convert currency digits into written Arabic words.
• Accents - Provides a simple package check or remove accents from a string use CLI or function, Support multi languages.

PHP

• Ar-PHP - A set of PHP classes developed to enhance Arabic web applications by providing set of tools includes stem-based searching, translitiration, soundex, Hijri calendar, charset detection and converter, spell numbers, keyboard language, Muslim prayer time, auto-summarization, and more...
• The PHP League Website in Arabic.

Laravel 5.x

• arabicdatetime - Easy and useful tool to get arabic date with arabic characters for laravel 5.1.

Wordpress

• Arabic-Webfonts - WordPress plugin which allow you to add Arabic fonts easily to any theme without coding.

Python

• ar2en - Renames Arabic files and directories into English recursively.
• Arabish - Arabic transliteration in Python. Similar to Yamli.com, Google Ta3reeb, and Microsoft Maren.
• date-extractor - Extracts dates from text in Arabic and other languages
• hijra - Hijri Islamic Calendar utils in python.
• PyArabic - Arabic text tools for Python.
• pyarabicshaping - Port of GNU FriBidi's Arabic shaping to Python.
• pyIslam - Python library to calculate prayer times, hijri date, qiblah direction and more.
• python-arabic-reshaper - Reconstruct Arabic sentences to be used in applications that don't support Arabic.
• ATKSPY - Python wrapper for Microsoft Arabic toolkit service, it provides transliterator, speller, SARF, pos tagger, parser, NER, and even a Colloquial to Arabic Converter.

Ruby

• Manshar - Arabic social publishing platform.

CSS & RTL

CSS frameworks and resources that support RTL layout.

• Bootstrap 2.x & 3.x RTL.
• Bootstrap 3 RTL - RTL Theme for Bootstrap v3.x.
• Bootstrap 4 RTL - RTL Theme for Bootstrap v4.x.
• Foundation 5 - A CSS framework that natively supports RTL layouts.
• MaterializeCSS - MaterializeCSS supports RTL layouts.
• UIkit - A lightweight and modular front-end framework that supports RTL layouts.

LESS

• bi-app-less - writing bi-directional stylesheets in less

Text rendering

• https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz - A Text shaping engine
• https://github.com/HOST-Oman/libraqm - A library for complex text layout

Fonts

Freely available Arabic Fonts.

• Amiri Font - a classical Arabic typeface in Naskh style for typesetting books and other running text.
• Flat font - arabic font (Only Regular weight is available for free)..
• Jozoor font - Jozoor arabic font (Only Regular weight is available for free).
• sahl-naskh - A fork of Droid Arabic Naskh font fixing some of the issues in the original font.

Browser Extensions

• Wudooh (وضوح) - Chrome and Firefox extension that makes Arabic script clearer
• Fahm - Arabic pop-up dictionary extension for Google Chrome

Markdown

• Simple Markdown Editor - Write Markdown in Arabic.
• SimpleMDE - Markdown Editor (RTL) - A simple, beautiful, and embeddable JavaScript Markdown editor. Delightful editing for beginners and experts alike. Features built-in autosaving and spell checking.

Natural Language Processing

Libraries for working with Arabic language text and data.

Morphological Tools

• UralicNLP - An open-source Python library for lemmatization, morphological analysis and generation for Arabic and other languages.
• Qutuf قطوف - An Arabic Morphological analyzer and Part-Of-Speech tagger. The Core of a Framework for Arabic Language Processing as an Expert System.
• AlKhalil Morpho Sys 2 - A robust Arabic morpho-syntactic analyzer.
• MADA+TOKAN - A Toolkit for Arabic Tokenization, Diacritization, Morphological Disambiguation, POS Tagging, Stemming and Lemmatization.
• MADAMIRA - A new version of MADA
• SAMA - Standard Arabic Morphological Analyzer (crucial to obtain the latest version of SAMA for analysis purposes)
• BAMA - Buckwalter's Morphological Analyzer BAMA 2.0.
• AraMorph - Arabic Morphological analyzer.

Stemmers & Roots

• Apache Lucene Arabic Light Stemmer A lucene analyzer that implements light-stemming as specified by: Light Stemming for Arabic Information Retrieval.
• arabicstemmer - Snowball-based light stemmer algorithm for Arabic, aimed mainly to improve search.
• Khoja Stemmer - Shereen Khoja Arabic stemmer (java). Another implementation exists for the same algorithm (java as well).
• Arabic RootFinder - Root finding using Jupyter Notebook, Scikit-learn, and neural network in Keras.

Arabic text vocalization

• Shakkelha - Open source Arabic text diacritization recurrent neural network software written in Python, website: https://shakkelha.herokuapp.com.
• Mishkal - Arabic text vocalization software written in Python, website: http://tahadz.com/mishkal.

Verb conjugation

• Arabic-Conjugator - Conjugates MSA verbs given three root letters, verb form, tense, and pronoun.
• Qutrub - FOSS Arabic verbs conjugator

Spell Checkers

• YaraSpell - simplified Arabic spell checker.
• Aya Spell - spellchecking (hunspell-ar), thesaurus (thesaurus-ar) and Morphological lexicon (Grammar-ar).

Calligraphy

• Calliar - Online Handwritten Dataset for Arabic Calligraphy.

Others

• Arabic NLP - Collection of various Arabic NLP and Text Processing Scripts and Utilities.
• arabic_nlp - Tools to normalise and derive sentiment from Arabic text.
• Minteeq - مِنطيق - Opensource/free Arabic text to speech solution based on eSpeak.
• Python NLTK
• Ruby-based nlp_arabic - A ruby gem that contains Natural Language Processing tools for Arabic.
• Ya (ي) Language - An open source programming language in which you can code python in Arabic language.
• Shakkala Project مشروع شكّالة - A neural network for Arabic text vocalization to automatically form Arabic characters.
• Arabic Keyboard - Online Arabic keyboard. Beautiful clean design, no ads.
• Arabic Speech Corpus - Database for automated Arabic speech.
• Tarmeez - binary data format for etymological Arabic system.

GIT

• Ar cheat-sheet - Git Cheat Sheet in Arabic.
• ArabicGit - Learn Git in Arabic.
• simple-guide - A simple guide in Arabic to get started using Git.

Dictionaries

• Arabeyes - Arabic Tech dictionary.
• arabterm - Extract of arabterm.org technical dictionnaries. 150k+ entries in arabic, english, french, and german.
• en_ar_dict - English Arabic dictionary written in python and Qt4 (pyside).
• FuzzyArabicDict - a dictionary app that allows you to look up Arabic words in transliteration.
• Nibras - French-Arabic tech terms for students.

Data

Data, databases and content related or useful to Arabic projects.

Voice Corpus

• Arabic Speech Corpus - South Levantine Arabic (Damascian accent) speech corpus. Package contains 1813 .wav files containing spoken utterances accompanied with files containing the text utterances and phoneme labels

Verb conjugation

• LABR - Large Scale Arabic Book Reviews Dataset.
• Large Arabic Resources For Sentiment Analysis.
• Arabic Stop Words - Long list of Arabic stop words combined from different sources.

Arabic Text Diacritization

• Arabic Text Diacritization Corpus - Arabic text diacritization corpus with comparisons for different systems.
• Arabic Text Diacritization Corpus Extension - Arabic text diacritization corpus extension.

Arabic Captions

• Arabic COCO - MS COCO Dataset Captions translated in Arabic using Google's Advanced Cloud Translation API.

Awesome content

• ar-python - Learn Python in Arabic.

• Colors Lab - UX/UI philosophy in Arabic.

• Hsoub Academy - Hight quality tutorials about programing, DevOps, UX and Design, Freelancing...

• Hsoub I/O - The Arabic Reddit-like.

• informatic-ar - Arabic content about programming concepts, algorithms, AI ..etc.

• Ruby 3arabi - Learn Ruby in Arabic.

Communities

• LinuxAC - Linux Arabic Community
• iSecur1ty - Arabs Security and Ethical hacking community.

ebooks

• Nextjs-Arabic-Handbook - كتيّب تعلم Next.js بالعربية

Miscellaneous

Useful libraries or tools that don't fit in the categories above.

• SemVer (Semantic Versioning) specs in Arabic.
• Thawab - Thawab Arabic/Islamic encyclopedia system.
• Alpine.js 2.x documentation in Arabic - ترجمة توثيق مكتبة Alpine.js باللغة العربية.
• Yamli - A Smart Arabic Keyboard that allows users to type Arabic without an Arabic keyboard

Contributing

Your contributions are welcome, just send me a Pull Request!.