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

.Net

• TradingSystem - A multi-language cross-platform open source free trading system that supports personal transaction management, restaurants, small shops, supermarkets, hotels, etc. It can also support secondary development and cooperate with your current business management and statistical reports.

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.
• 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.

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.

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.
• 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.

Contributing

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